On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 09:58:52AM +0000, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 09:54, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > So? Your question was whether index state is precious. If it's precious, > > shouldn't we be keeping a history of it? > > I don't think it's quite _that_ precious, but the only operation that > I regularly use that can blow away my carefully constructed index as > side effect of doing something else is `git commit -a`. OK, so how precious is it? :) If you want to have an option that specifically prevents the "git commit -a" muscle memory thing, then go for it. I'm guessing it is the most common "oops" one. Even with an index reflog, you might want it on top. But it just seems silly to me to not protect at the same time against the other ways you can lose state from the index. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html