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On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 05:45:20PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Depending on the kind of things I'm doing, I usually run status
> regularly, because it's short to read, and it shows me both staged and
> unstaged changes.  git-status tells me if I did something obviously
> totally wrong (changing a file on which I was not working, deleting
> something important ...), and after that, git-diff gives me a
> finer-grained vision of what I did.

Yeah, ditto for me.  When I return to a project after having been away a
few minutes, the first things I do are

	git branch	# remind me which topic I was working on
	git status	# remind me if I was in the middle of something.

So I end up running it a lot.  I only do a git-diff if I need some
details.

--b.