Subject: Re: "Purposes, Concepts,Misfits, and a Redesign of Git" (a research paper)

From: Kevin Daudt <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2016 22:13:25 +0200

On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 12:24:57AM +0200, Jakub Narębski wrote:
> 
> | 7.2.1 Discussion
> [...]
> | There could be other use cases for the
> | staging area that Gitless doesn’t handle well but we expect
> | these to be fairly infrequent.
> 
> Like handling merge conflict...??? Infrequent doesn't mean
> unimportant.
> 

For me the most important thing is that the lack of staging area leads
on commits that have no clear goal, people just commit everything they
have changed at some point, as a sort of checkpoint.

Although lots of people still do this with git currently, they don't
even have the possibility[1] to improve on this.

This makes history and features like git bisect less useful.

[1] At most they can specify the files they want to commit, but this is
still a very crude way to group together changes.