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by Gys 2716 days ago
For simple projects (like ppl experimenting with git) you will always want to save all changes. So why stage first ?
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tux1968 2716 days ago
Not everyone stays a beginner forever, and it's nice to have a tool that doesn't play to the lowest common denominator. It's really not that hard to just do a "git commit -a" if you want to avoid staging.
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oblio 2715 days ago
> Not everyone stays a beginner forever

But the vast majority do, or at best become perpetual intermediates (https://blog.codinghorror.com/defending-perpetual-intermedia...).

99% of developers out there didn't need a power tool for source control (source control is already quite a power tool many devs can barely handle, even in SVN form...), yet here we are: Git is imposed everywhere, with its horrible UX.

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tux1968 2715 days ago
Git's UX isn't that bad if you're only cloning projects to build them locally and keep them updated. The UX only gets really crufty as you use more and more of the features.
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