From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Cc: semtlenori@gmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why git shows staging area to users?
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:38:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vtxtx1xe8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJDDKr7tUJ59jYDM-jhFnGMEB18taT7FsTJ24Hr=iBUgXXeYdg@mail.gmail.com> (David Aguilar's message of "Sat, 13 Oct 2012 17:56:39 -0700")
David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Yi, EungJun <semtlenori@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, all.
>>
>> Why git shows staging area to users, compared with the other scms hide
>> it? What benefits users get?
>
> http://thkoch2001.github.com/whygitisbetter/#the-staging-area
> http://tomayko.com/writings/the-thing-about-git
> http://gitready.com/beginner/2009/01/18/the-staging-area.html
>
> Other scms do not "hide"; other scms lack this feature altogether.
>
>> I feel staging area is useful, but it is difficult to explain why when
>> someone asks me about that.
>
> See above.
Very well said. Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-14 4:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-13 21:08 Why git shows staging area to users? Yi, EungJun
2012-10-14 0:06 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-10-14 0:56 ` David Aguilar
2012-10-14 4:38 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-10-14 17:16 ` Matthieu Moy
2012-10-14 2:09 ` Sitaram Chamarty
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