The reflog is an invaluable feature, I'm glad that I learned about it right when I started learning how to use git. Knowing that there's little I can do to perm

The reflog is an invaluable feature, I'm glad that I learned about it right when I started learning how to use git. Knowing that there's little I can do to permanently mess things up has given me the confidence to just try things out, speeding up my learning tremendously. I agree that the default git porcelain leaves something to be desired. Personally I use and absolutely love magit, slightly tweaked to give me the defaults I want. The staging area is one of the things that magit really improves on; you retain all its power while making it very cheap to use -- one keystroke to stage the selected file, or all modified files. I stage individual hunks à la `git add --patch` a lot, and sometimes need to include only part of the hunk I'm presented with. It wasn't uncommon for my editing the diff to result in an error with the git cli, now I select the lines I need and just stage those. And if you really don't want to use it, `--all` is easily set as a default for committing.