git and bzr

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Nicholas Allen wrote:
> > 
> > All useful conflict status is lost isn't it?
> 
> No, it's actually there, but "git status" doesn't really explain it to 
> you.
> 
> The go-to command tends to be "git diff", which after a merge will not 
> show anything that already merged correctly (because it will have been 
> updated in the git index _and_ updated in the working tree, so there will 
> be no diff from stuff that auto-merged).

This is actually the most meaningful argument for not hiding the index. 
Usually I explain it to people as a "staging area" standing between your 
working directory, and the next committed state.

But I will start explaining the index with "what if your merge failed?".

Ciao,
Dscho