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		house9-2 on May 24, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: More Productive Git > The staging area is totally unnecessary IMO. I think git would be easier if we didn't have it. Staging area / Index is one of the best features of Git for me. If I end up having a bunch of semi related changes in-progress; being able to easily group those into individual commits is great. > The term `checkout` is multiplexed to do more things than I would've guessed. Agree

pjc50 on May 24, 2019 [–]

You can do that in svn too with the "changelist".

agapon on May 24, 2019 | [–]

svn cannot do partial file commits

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