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On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 11:33:21AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I think many good stuff git offers would not be helpful to the
> users until index is understood as the third entity, in addition
> to the usual "committed state" and "working tree state".  It
> might be better to talk about it sooner rather than later.  And
> the tool is geared towards taking advantage of it, so until the
> user understands that, behaviour of some tools would feel
> unintuitive.

Yeah, makes sense.  But I'd like to introduce that while still
introducing the higher-level tools earlier on than core-tutorial.txt
does.  I'll give some thought to how to move things in that direction,
maybe this weekend....

--b.