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On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Tamas Herman <hermanta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> most common idiocity is to just version control everything in the project
> directory, no matter if it's already version controlled somewhere or not.
> git encourages this because it gives no easy way _by default_ to easily
> pick the files u want to add to the repo.

Are you talking about

  $ git add --all

? You can use

  $ git add <path1> <path2>...

instead, just don't say 'git add .' (dot) that adds all files under
the directory you're in.

> it's not obvious how to checkout only the current state without the
> full history.

I believe the feature you're referring to in Darcs is

  $ darcs get --lazy

? In git, this is known as a shallow clone, you can do it with

  $ git clone --depth 1

but I think you already know this. You may be right that it's not
obvious how to do this in git from the documentation, most people just
grit their teeth through a full clone.

> in darcs even this is interactive and obvious...
> all this is magnified when u try to do things on a lower bandwidth...

Speaking about interactivity, yeah, in most places git doesn't enable
it by default, you have to specify it with a switch. IIRC,
interactivity seems more like an afterthought, being implemented with
Perl (eg. git add -p).

-- 
Cheers,
Ray Chuan