[lsaferite]

> The staging area encourages me to think that I can make my change and split it up into logical commits afterwards, even though I know I'll actually just give up and make it a big commit.

That sounds like a personal discipline problem and not a poor tool.

[lmm]

The whole point of a tool like git is so that I don't have to expend personal discipline.

[lsaferite]

That's like claiming a gun is just used for shooting other things and that the point of the gun is so you don't have to understand how to handle it. Then when you shoot yourself in the foot you get mad at the gun and not yourself.

[Qwertious]

Guns are expected to be drop-safe. Some people say "well you shouldn't be so careless with a lethal weapon anyway", and yet most people will want their gun to avoid firing a bullet when dropped.

[zepto]

Compare a Sig P226 to a Type 94 Nambu.

Both are guns. Neither will shoot you if you understand how to handle it. One is much easier to make mistakes with than the other.

The parent is saying that Git is the Nambu of DVCS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_94_Nambu_pistol#Unintenti...