Thanks for clarifying, my experience with Git is much more limited than with Mercurial, so it wasn't clear to me that the index is a sort of editable (or partia

Thanks for clarifying, my experience with Git is much more limited than with Mercurial, so it wasn't clear to me that the index is a sort of editable (or partial?) commit (of course now it looks quite obvious). I understand the appeal of that, in fact Mercurial acquired similar capabilities during it's evolution, thanks to a number of extensions (for example histedit [1]) [1] https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/HisteditExtension https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/HisteditExtension