Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

quoted text
> ...  Rather,
> "building your next commit incrementally in the index is the
> workflow git is designed to support, but you are not required to
> do that _incrementally_.  Until you encounter a complex
> situation such as resolving a large conflicting merge, doing
> that incrementally does not buy you anything as long as you work
> in a clean working tree.

Side note.  I think the above "Until..." is an overstatement,
and maybe the readers of the tutorial can be taught a lot
earlier how the index can help them.  Maybe the following
sequence can be added to an early part of the tutorial sequence?

 $ edit hello.c
 $ make test
 $ git diff
 $ git update-index hello.c; # ok, that is good so far.
 $ edit hello.c; # hack more
 $ make test; # oops, does not work
 $ git diff; # ah, that overeager edit broken what was good
 $ git checkout hello.c; # get the last good one back


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