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When Git writes a commit, it doesn't snapshot the working tree
It snapshots the index
git-add copies files into the index
git-diff compares the working tree to the index
(git-diff --cached compares the index and the commit)
Copying the other way is an unwholesome mix of git-commit and git-reset
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