Sounds like the OP would prefer the Gitless[1] porcelain; it removes the concept of staged files, and significantly simplifies the number of concepts required t

Sounds like the OP would prefer the Gitless[1] porcelain; it removes the concept of staged files, and significantly simplifies the number of concepts required to work with Git. (This is a fun project because there's also a paper[2] that analyzes the design of Git from a conceptual level, and comes up with the simplifications that Gitless implements.) [1]: http://gitless.com/ http://gitless.com/ [2]: https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/10/24/whats-wrong-with-git-a-conceptual-design-analysis/ https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/10/24/whats-wrong-with-git-a-c...