A new plea for merging while you have outstanding committed changes

[Roman Neuhauser]

# paul.boddie at biotek.uio.no / 2010-08-06 15:07:09 +0200:
> Aardwolf wrote:
> > Also, I've never used git myself so far, but someone who was using git told
> > me he didn't know that problem there. Does anyone know if this is true or
> > not?
> >   
> 
> I believe that git forces you to "stage" everything that will eventually 
> be committed to the repository. This causes other problems unless you 
> like that sort of thing.

it's exactly the same problems you could get into with hg record:
increased potential of committing untested changes.  having tried
git very briefly i think the index is a very powerful tool.

-- 
Roman Neuhauser