Hi, On Tue, 8 May 2007, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Heh. Making the index very visible makes sense when you are merging, You're saying that the main use of the index is to help merging. I have to disagree strongly. When I have been chasing a bug all over the place, and finally found it, my working tree is a mess. Lots of assertions, lots of debugging statements, some of them commented out. So, now it is cleanup time, right? The problem is that more often than not, I broke my fix while cleaning up. Therefore, I now put all changed files into the index (git add -u), and clean up the files one by one, always checking with "git diff" and "git diff HEAD" what I still have to do. Yes, very often I can just take the original version of a file (git reset --soft <file...> would be handy here), but it helped me quite a number of times to have my messed-up-but-working state in the index. In a sense, I am using the index as the stash commit we talked about every once in a while. Ciao, Dscho - 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
