I think, by design, every commit in git is staged.

Wow.

Honestly I think the plurality are by students, maybe even the majority.

When I was a student I had to manually set up CVS pserver and CVSWeb to collaborate with other students on assignments.

This is a bit easier by at least a few orders of magnitude.

I really hope it's the latter, that would be quite brilliant

I don't mean intentionally.

I mean maybe he made that repo because he'd given up on his coding dreams. Almost.

That would be some interesting accidental meta commentary on the state of things.