Why app specific index?

[ColonelPanic42]

Hello, I still have GitAhead (currently Version 2.6.3) and I am thinking about moving to GittyUp. Just wanted to make sure, that a major issue that I have with GitAhead is not also one here.

At least in my installation ion MS Windows 10 with WSL, GitAhead uses an extra index which resides in the folder .git/GitAhead/index.

As I sometimes use cli git for some actions that work better with that and some actions especially conflict solving with a GUI frontend, it is quite annoying that they are not using the same staging index.

Is there and Option in GittyUp to at least make it use the standard git index? I would like a GUI frontend to just behave as a frontend to standard git, not have its own repository management. In case this issue still exists, could you kindly suggest a different frontend? Thank you for your time and trouble.

Best regards

Philip.

[Murmele]

Hi Philip, I will check it out. It seems we don't use our own index, because (at least in my case) the index binary is inside the .git folder not inside .git/gittyup/index Or is the index file in there for you?

[exactly-one-kas]

The GitAhead / Gittyup index is just a search index, we use the standard staging index for staging operations.

[exactly-one-kas]

@ColonelPanic42 Does this answer your question?

[exactly-one-kas]

Since there's been no activity here for quite some time, I'll close this