From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:11:27 -0000 (UTC), Ben Collver wrote:   
      
   > * It's simpler to use and it feels more natural (at least for   
   >   someone who knows other systems such as Subversion) because it   
   >   does not contain overkill functionalities such as the staging   
   >   area, which may be useful in large and complex projects such as   
   >   the Linux kernel, but for me they have no practical use.   
      
   The need for explicit git-add is very useful even in single-person   
   projects.   
      
   For example, I spend several hours making and testing a bunch of   
   changes to the working source tree. At the end of it, once I’m   
   satisfied the code has reached a suitable point, I realize that my   
   changes are more naturally grouped into multiple commits, rather than   
   a single one.   
      
   So now I use “git add -e” and review the resulting patch, putting   
   together the first commit by taking out everything I want to leave for   
   later commits. Then I commit what’s left, with a suitable   
   descrfiption.   
      
   Back into “git add -e” again, to put together the next commit, and so   
   on, until it’s all done. Except I might leave out some debug lines,   
   that I don’t want to include in the final source.   
      
   In the process, I might hand-edit a line here and a line there, to   
   disentangle separate changes for which the source only holds the   
   combined effect. This means creating intermediate versions of the   
   source code that never actually existed as explicit files in the   
   source tree.   
      
   Git gives you the flexibility to work this way, if you choose.   
      
   > * Commit messages don't use email addresses, they use user names so   
   >   if you have a public repository you don't have to be worried about   
   >   spam and you don't need a specific email address for this use   
   >   only.   
      
   There was never a requirement for you to use *valid* email addresses   
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