[narnianal]

> The term `checkout` is multiplexed to do more things than I would've guessed.

Do you mean `pull`?

> The staging area is totally unnecessary IMO. I think git would be easier if we didn't have it.

It's an interesting POV. Especially since you can easily amend and rebase -i before pushing without any consequence. Thanks for the idea. I implement a git-like for a special use case at the moment and will certainly consider this.