Re: [Census] So who uses git?

From: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Date: 2006-02-01 06:01:50
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 09:30 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>  - ignore it. Never _ever_ use git-update-index directly, and don't tell 
>    people about use individual filenames to git-commit. Maybe even add 
>    "-a" by default to the git-commit flags as a special installation 
>    addition.

As a newly initiated user, this would have been a more gentle
introduction to the system. But, it would be hard to make it entirely
invisible given the current interfaces. I'm not sure if obscuring the
presense of the index is a great plan; it's already hard enough to
figure out how it works.

-- 
keith.packard@intel.com

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