From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:34:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] git-add update with all-0 object
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611301733460.9647@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611301634080.20138@iabervon.org>

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

> One thing that I think is non-intuitive to a lot of users (either novice 
> or who just don't do it much) is that it matters where in the process you 
> do "git add <path>" if you're also changing the file. Even if you 
> understand the index, you may not realize (or may not have internalized 
> the fact) that what git-add does is update the index with what's there 
> now.

And actually I think this is a good thing.  This is what makes the index 
worth it.  Better find a way to make it obvious to people what's 
happening.