I think part of the issue here is that the actions one wants to take isn't the same for everyone. For example, I basically never want to commit and then immedi

I think part of the issue here is that the actions one wants to take isn't the same for everyone. For example, I basically never want to commit and then immediately push to some server. And for add, then commit, you can just do git commit -a. But being able to add and commit changes separately can be very useful.