Re: [PATCH] make 'git add' a first class user friendly interface to the index

> The argument I was _trying_ to make was that we should teach the second 
> conceptual model not the first one AND stick with just the git add command 
> (in response to your (Carl's) statement earlier in the thread that there 
> needs to be two separate commands) .  My if statements were to illustrate 
> that there are two fundamental ways of looking at this, not lots of ifs that 
> newbies would have to consider.  We should up-front (in the tutorial, in 
> appropriate man pages) use the one conceptual model (and I also like Junio's 
> argument that git should take an aggressive stance of this is how the 
> conceptual model is rather than the "contrary to ..." approach).