Re: [Census] So who uses git?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 31, 2006, 10:27 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0601311127250.25248@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20060130185822.GA24487@hpsvcnb.fc.hp.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Carl Baldwin wrote:

> In general, I think it is grasping the reason for the index file and how 
> git commands like git-commit and git-diff interact with it.

IMHO this is the one big showstopper. I had problems explaining the concept myself.

For example, I had a hard time explaining to a friend why a git-add'ed file is committed when saying "git commit some_other_file", but not another (modified) file. Very unintuitive.

Ciao, Dscho

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