Files marked with checkbox should be staged for commit for consistency with other apps and terminal

Please describe the problem you think should be solved To have a consistent experience with other apps as well as terminal, files marked with checkbox should be staged for commit.

Example: When I have some files with checkboxes checked, when I run git status in the terminal I should have those files presented in Changes staged for commit. Files that are not marked with checkbox should be in the section Changes not staged for commit.

[Optional] Do you have any potential solutions in mind? You can take an inspiration from SourceTree app which works exactly how I describe it. This is very convenient for me, because I can start marking files to commit and end with the terminal or vice versa.

[billygriffin]

Thank you so much for the additional clarification @castus - glad the speed of Desktop is solid for you. And I’m sorry the design choice we made doesn’t work well with your workflow. We have seen people who didn’t previously use Desktop to commit have great luck with it when they tried to do increased parts of their workflow with the app, and you wouldn’t need to contend with the Git index. Anyway, I appreciate the feedback and if it’s something we see significantly more of, we’ll definitely revisit. Thanks again!

[castus]

I started learning GIT only from the Terminal. There is one very annoying thing for me; when I need to check changes to stage. That’s why I use all GIT clients only for visually check changes and stage/unstage files. All other things (commit, rebase, reset, etc.) I’m doing from the terminal. All GIT clients that I’ve tried (SourceTree, GitKraken, Tower) work with my workflow very well, but they are slow comparing to Github Desktop. I noticed it right away when trying your app. For ex. as iOS developer I need to tackle merge conflicts in project files called .pbxproj. That file has more than 100k lines of code. I don’t know how you did it, but GH Desktop is blazing fast showing me the changes in that file 😉 That is why I started to use it. Unfortunately it doesn’t have the ability to synchronise index with the git and it was my big disappointment. This is something so much important to me, that I’m unable to use GH Desktop.