I'm not convinced that offering the staging area is a good default for git.
It's an abstraction that newcomers have to learn before their first commit. Subversion style "commit every tracked file" isn't as pretty (`git add` is general) but it's the common case.
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I'm surprised there aren't more tools out there for starting a new project with some default config files.
There's `cargo new` but it's Rust specific and very minimal. create-react-app is React specific.
The only option I know of is cookiecutter. Surely it's a common problem?
My default assumption is that external libraries are better than what I (or an LLM) would write in a v1.
The extra effort to publish a project generally signifies that the author has spent a good amount of time on the problem. I end up prompting LLMs to prefer external code.
GNU Make defaults to a single worker, and newer build tools (e.g. ninja) default to the number of physical CPUs. I wish there was an option for 'leave me a little bit of my machine to do stuff'.