From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:09:17 GMT
Subject: Re: Why git shows staging area to users?
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On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 2:38 AM, Yi, EungJun <semtlenori@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> Why git shows staging area to users, compared with the other scms hide
> it? What benefits users get?
>
> I feel staging area is useful, but it is difficult to explain why when
> someone asks me about that.

I wrote this a long time ago, more for my understanding than
otherwise, but maybe it is useful:
http://sitaramc.github.com/concepts/uses-of-index.html