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Subject: Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 17:31:41 -0700
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> And unlike the "simpler" model of committing individual hunks
> with "git add -i" or something like that, my model is actually
> much superior!

I obviously agree with this.  As I said a few times I regret
introducing "add -i" --- it encourages a wrong workflow, in that
what you commit in steps never match what you had in the working
tree and could have tested until the very end.