On Nov 28, 2012, at 15:55 , Marco S Hyman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Written by someone who doe not appreciate the benefits of git staging and the 
> index.  I will stage changes in a tree (git add) that may not be quite ready 
> for a commit before doing something that I may not like and want to undo.  If 
> I like the results of my large change I can re-stage.  If I don't like the 
> result I can revert to the staged versions of the files with a simple 
> check-out.

It was written by someone who wasn't really talking about git at all, but 
rather pointing out that there is virtue in *automatic* snapshots. Any git 
maneuver for protecting your editing history is useless if you forgot to do it.




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