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From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: the careless committer and fear of commitment (rebase -i vs add 
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:44:01 +0530
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Hi,

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> =
wrote:
> I like =91git diff --cached=92 and =91git diff=92 to show the entire =
list
> of staged and unstaged changes. =A0I don=92t consider this =93wrong=94=
 at all.

On a related note, my workflow is somewhat similar: I just use Magit
within Emacs, which essentially does the same thing. The staging area
in Git really helps me organize my work, and I wouldn't mind attaching
a small note to it that I can refer to while writing my commit message
(much like Jonathan's idea). However, I don't think this task is large
enough for an entire GSoC.

Also, I'm positively opposed to the idea of a complex interactive
command-line interface. If someone *did* want that kind of complexity/
interactivity, they ought to use something like Magit: a cli can't
even come close.

-- Ram