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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? by still_grokking on Saturday July 11, 2020 @08:34PM (#23807537)
This approach doesn't allow you to easily revert parts of your last change-set. Actually you can't even distinguish in the diff your last changes form all the other accumulated changes once the recent change-set was commited.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? by smichel17 on Saturday July 11, 2020 @10:18PM (#23808155)
I don't follow. You could totally implement a staging area workflow by making a commit with the message "Staging Area", repeatedly amending it, and then finally giving it a real message when you're ready to commit "for real". The main thing you lose that way is the ability to push safely.
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