Introduce git helpers?

For #2856 , should we introduce some of the existing options to reduce friction with Git? In particular:

• core.autostage: staging changes to DVC files.
• install: install hooks for checkout, commit, and push.

These options might be too in-depth for getting started, but they also seem hard to find today despite being useful for many (maybe most) users to reduce the pain of duplicating DVC and Git commands.

[dberenbaum]

Related: https://github.com/iterative/dvc/discussions/6929.

And to summarize the larger question, is it whether to keep featuring a bunch of git add/commit samples in our docs (especially Get Started/ Data Management) or to introduce/assume dvc install more?

That wasn’t initially my question, but it’s a good question. First, it’s probably more applicable to autostage than dvc install. dvc install reduces DVC commands, not Git commands.

Even for autostage, I wouldn’t rush to do this. It would be a big change and one that might not make sense for users who miss that part or who started using DVC before we made the change. Also, glancing through the examples, I think the Git commands are mostly helpful by showing when .dvc or .gitignore files were modified.

When I mentioned lowering the barrier to entry, it could be by eventually eliminating these Git commands and not bothering to explain .dvc files and the details of how DVC works at first, but I’m not so sure I even like that idea, and I don’t think we should go that far now.

[shcheklein]

I think #72 can cover things like this? Especially if we mention about that sections in the very beginning (put a link into the User Guide tile for example in the index page)?