Ignore on commit

[Marco Craveiro <marco.craveiro@gmail.com>]

Hello gitters,

One of the very (very) few features I miss in svn is "ignore on
commit" (or, more generally, changelists). I'm not sure if this has
been discussed in the past - google failed me a bit due to spurious
matches - but I personally find it quite useful. The feature is
described here [1] (and graphically, here [2]).

The gist of it is, one can mark certain files as "ignore on commit"
and they get placed on a "special list" which shows up on status.
These lists are effectively a sub-division of modified (but not
staged). Up till now I have found the staging area to be quite
sufficient, but recently I hit a use case where I was modifying a
large number of files; some modifications were hacks required to get
the build to work but were not meant to ever get checked in, most
other files had real work. In cases like this its really useful to
mark the hacked files as "ignore on commit", so that a) we don't lose
track of them (as one would with git ignore, or with [4]) but b) we
won't check them in by mistake.

I found some tips on how to survive without change lists ([3], [4])
but they are a bit more cumbersome. Has this feature been discussed?

Thanks a lot for an amazing piece of software, and thanks for your time.

Cheers

Marco
-- 
So young, and already so unknown -- Pauli

blog: http://mcraveiro.blogspot.com

[1] http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.6/svn.ref.svn.c.changelist.html
[2] http://blog.baljeetsingh.net/2009/02/tips-tricks-svn-ignore-on-commit.html
[3] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10606809/git-equivalence-of-svn-changelist
[4] http://gitready.com/intermediate/2009/02/18/temporarily-ignoring-files.html