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house9-2 on May 24, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: More Productive Git

> The staging area is totally unnecessary IMO. I think git would be easier if we didn't have it.

Staging area / Index is one of the best features of Git for me.

If I end up having a bunch of semi related changes in-progress; being able to easily group those into individual commits is great.

> The term `checkout` is multiplexed to do more things than I would've guessed.

Agree

pjc50 on May 24, 2019 [–]

You can do that in svn too with the "changelist".

agapon on May 24, 2019 | [–]

svn cannot do partial file commits

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