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I personally hate the index. It gets in my way far more often than I actually make use of it.

How does it ever get in the way? Just add `-a` and you can essentially ignore that there is an index on commits.

Let's say I modified an existing file (not staged) and then git add a new file. It is a work in progress, and the two changes are not supposed to be in the same commit.

Now, what can I do to see all changes I have made so far?

I have done this many times with subversion (svn diff) and mercurial (hg diff). Git's index just get in the way.

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