On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote:

> On 3/19/15, Scott Robison <sc...@casaderobison.com> wrote:
> >
> > I can't answer for Abilio, but given my recent increased experience with
> > git due to workplace changes: the git folk seem to prefer the staging
> area
> > because you're less likely to accidentally commit something you didn't
> mean
> > to. Essentially, it seems like a "feature" for people who can't or don't
> > want multiple open work areas so ensure the right things get committed on
> > the right branches, since they very well may be working on multiple
> > branches at the same time in the same tree.
> >
>
> So the staging area is being used as a way of working around the fact
> that Git does not allow multiple independent check-outs against the
> same repository?  Am I understanding that correctly?
>

That is the best answer I've been given. I explained how I worked (in both
svn & fossil) on separate branches in separate directories, but received no
further feedback on that topic.

-- 
Scott Robison
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