[wbkang]

It sounds like Stockholm to me ;) I don't think you _need_ the index to make partial commit work. I've used Mercurial first so I know "hg commit -i" exists.

Even if the staging concept is clear to someone, git cli terminology _is_ objectively very confusing and there are many articles written about it already (e.g., do I "add" to index? Is the index also referred as cached/Staged? Mixing different verbs and nouns everywhere). Are they all the same?)

I just wrote this to say it is not a necessary part of making a tool as powerful as git - Mercurial shows an example of a similar tool with a less confusing CLI.

Of course, git won so I just live with it. I enjoy teaching git new devs because once you explain the confusing terminology up front, they understand it faster.