> However, this detail can mostly be ignored because it’s not relevant to the high level conceptual ideas this article is trying to present.
Personally speaking, I find knowing and distinguishing among the 4 indexes to be essential to understanding git. Not including and really exploring that detail gives people an incorrect mental model of what's happening.
Marvelous, if the metaphors of the article helped you, but I empathize with the upstream poster's frustration. I believe that the content of the article is not medicine for the malaise it describes.
Personally speaking, I find knowing and distinguishing among the 4 indexes to be essential to understanding git. Not including and really exploring that detail gives people an incorrect mental model of what's happening.
Marvelous, if the metaphors of the article helped you, but I empathize with the upstream poster's frustration. I believe that the content of the article is not medicine for the malaise it describes.