Coming from subversion it seemed silly that staging and committing is separated in git. Why not have a command to combine the both? Most git clients handle thi

Coming from subversion it seemed silly that staging and committing is separated in git. Why not have a command to combine the both? Most git clients handle this automatically since for most "normal" flows there is no need to separate the two. An explanation on the need for separate staging would be nice to include the in the philosophy of git.