From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?David_K=C3=A5gedal?= Subject: Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 17:57:30 -0700 Message-ID: <87wszagayt.fsf@morpheus.local> References: <8b65902a0705070440t40889af0p1fb8dbf7e2a072e4@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 15 08:22:10 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HnqQE-00027O-5h for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 15 May 2007 08:22:10 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761868AbXEOGVi convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2007 02:21:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755478AbXEOGVi (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2007 02:21:38 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:50400 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761868AbXEOGVh (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2007 02:21:37 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HnqPa-0000x3-EG for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 15 May 2007 08:21:30 +0200 Received: from adsl-71-131-20-72.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net ([71.131.20.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 08:21:30 +0200 Received: from davidk by adsl-71-131-20-72.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 08:21:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-71-131-20-72.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KFef9T0O9EvVB+Zn8aUWLCyCHis= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: "Guilhem Bonnefille" 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 --=20 David K=C3=A5gedal