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From: "David Kågedal" <davidk@lysator.liu.se>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 17:57:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wszagayt.fsf@morpheus.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8b65902a0705070440t40889af0p1fb8dbf7e2a072e4@mail.gmail.com

"Guilhem Bonnefille" <guilhem.bonnefille@gmail.com> writes:

> In order to improve my productivity with Git, and in order to avoid
> traps around moving from SVN to Git, I often use the Git Emacs mode.
> It is really usefull for beginners as it works similarly for CVS, SVN
> and Git: synthetic view of all modifications, easy selection of what
> will be commited... The biggest drawback of this "porcelain": using
> it, you do not understand the Git's index philosophy.

And it's broken as well.  If you "update" in the emacs mode you cannot
do a "git commit" in a terminal without manually running "git
update-index" first.

I think an emacs-mode that is closer to git-gui would be better, and
closer to the git philosophy

-- 
David Kågedal

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-15  6:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-06 16:10 [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index Matthieu Moy
2007-05-06 16:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-06 17:34   ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-06 17:43     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-09 12:52       ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-09 13:57         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-09 14:24           ` [PATCH] git-commit: Reformat log messages provided on commandline Petr Baudis
2007-05-09 14:59             ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-09 15:11               ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-09 15:32                 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-09 15:01             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-10  0:45             ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-12  0:25               ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-06 18:22     ` [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index Dana How
2007-05-06 23:42     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-06 17:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-06 18:23   ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-06 19:54     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-06 22:53     ` Julian Phillips
2007-05-07  6:35       ` Karl Hasselström
2007-05-08  1:41         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-08  7:15           ` Johannes Sixt
2007-05-08 10:28             ` Karl Hasselström
2007-05-08 12:40               ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-08 14:53                 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-05-09  3:45                   ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-09  9:40                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-08  7:37           ` Karl Hasselström
2007-05-08 14:52             ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-06 23:51     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-07  8:02       ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-07 11:05         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-09 13:07           ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-08  3:16     ` Martin Langhoff
2007-05-08  4:45       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-08  5:35         ` Martin Langhoff
2007-05-09 13:41         ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-09 15:52           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-09 16:29             ` Carl Worth
2007-05-11  1:28               ` Jakub Narebski
     [not found]                 ` <7vd518gkyo.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
2007-05-11 11:26                   ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-11 16:45                     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-11 23:06                       ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-12  0:40                         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-12  1:06                           ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-12  9:35                           ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-09 16:33             ` Dana How
2007-05-09 17:18               ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-09 17:26                 ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-09 17:29                   ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-09 17:39             ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-05-09 18:16               ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-10  0:31             ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-10  2:27               ` Steven Grimm
2007-05-10  2:39                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-10  8:00                   ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-10 22:06               ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-10 22:51                 ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-08 11:07       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-15  1:00         ` David Kågedal
2007-05-15 23:27           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-09 17:18     ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-07 11:40 ` Guilhem Bonnefille
2007-05-07 12:16   ` Karl Hasselström
2007-05-07 12:36     ` David Kastrup
2007-05-07 12:55   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-07 19:31     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-09 13:14     ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-07 22:23   ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-05-15  0:57   ` David Kågedal [this message]
2007-05-15  8:29     ` Karl Hasselström

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