From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 07:48:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a".
Message-ID: <e5bfff550612012348g4c6bc53bqbc0ff8633ea1a51a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <eknj33$q2r$1@sea.gmane.org>

>
> Index is accessible, just like committed contents. The fact that gitk, qgit,
> git-gui doesn't display state of index is their limitation.
> --

Actually qgit let's you see state index for each file when committing
with qgit commit dialog.

Indeed you can also choose to update only the index state of a file
without committing, ie without create a new tree object.

Internally, the index state of each file is known and tracked. No
other interface is provided, as example a diff, just because I found
it confusing and of little concrete help.

Of course if knowning the index state became important to perform some
concrete and quite common operation I could add whatever GUI would
suite.

Suggestions are welcomed ;-)