Re: Is incremental staging really the common mode?

[david@lang.hm]

On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> david@lang.hm writes:
>
>> also, how many are doing 'git add .' or 'git add *' followed by git
>> commit?
>
> Everybody who starts a new history from scratch from an existing tarball
> would be doing this at least once ;-)
>
>> there were several commands listed that I have never heard of before
>> and will want to research to see what they do to see if I should be
>> using them.
>
> The commands singled out were either (1) ancient, nobody should be using
> them, and we would love to prove that nobody is using them anymore so that
> we can remove them, or (2) reasonably new inventions that would help
> common situations more than the stock Porcelain we have had for years, to
> see if they are already widely adopted.

it would be really good to indicate which is which. I spotted several 
things that looked like they would help me, but I have no idea which ones 
I should use and which I shouldn't

> Perhaps somebody (or group of people, taking turns) should post a "git
> trick of the week" series to this mailing list?

that would be a good idea. I would suggest also putting them on the wiki 
and (if possible) package them up periodicly as a fortune file.

David Lang