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0 pointsalwillis3y ago0 comments

I think there’s some Stockholm Syndrome [1] thing going on with the staging area. It confuses noobies and it’s easy to make mistakes.

I think we’ll be okay with this stack workflow [2] taken from Mercurial’s Evolve command [3].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome

[2]: https://sapling-scm.com/docs/overview/stacks

[3]: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/doc/evolution/tutorials/topic-...

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chungy3y ago· 2 in thread

> I think there’s some Stockholm Syndrome

I lived through the alternative and the staging area is superior. If it wasn't, I might not be using Git, or at least begrudge when I have to; neither is the case.

guytv3y ago

Isn't the staging area just a stack of changes where stack height == 1?

still_grokking3y ago

Sure. And a branch is also just a stack of changes…

The whole point is that this things are treated differently.

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still_grokking3y ago

Which part of the stack features would replace the staging area? I see nothing in this regard. Was the right documentation site linked?

I also don't see anything that couldn't be trivially added to Git. A few lines of shell script would likely suffice. What do I miss here?

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