On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote: > 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. Well, sure. It could be an argument to git-add. But surely not the default? git-add --latest maybe? Nicolas - 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