From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:41:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a".
Message-ID: <eknj33$q2r$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <456F4E38.50001@codeweavers.com>

Robert Shearman wrote:

> Having the index exposed for even simple operations means that the user 
> has to initially learn three states instead of two. The worst thing 
> about the index is that it is a limbo state. The committed content is in 
> the history and can be viewed by gitk (and other tools that the user 
> will be introduced to later) and the working tree is exactly what the 
> user sees in their editor. Having a hidden state isn't very good from an 
> HCI point of view.

Index is accessible, just like committed contents. The fact that gitk, qgit,
git-gui doesn't display state of index is their limitation.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git