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<p>You are happily working on something, and find the changes
in these files are in good order.  You do not want to see them
when you run <code>git diff</code>, because you plan to work on other files
and changes with these files are distracting.</p>
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<p>Somebody asks you to pull, and the changes sound worthy of merging.</p>
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<p>However, you already dirtied the index (i.e. your index does
not match the <code>HEAD</