Nicolas Pitre wrote: > 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. Still, perhaps (perhaps!) it would be useful to have "intent to add" git-add. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - 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