From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Seth Falcon Subject: Re: git-commit: select which files to commit while editing the commit message Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:59:44 -0800 Message-ID: References: <360959.72234.qm@web31809.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200612082310.24140.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 00:01:44 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:to:subject:references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=W7vcWcGPSKEeZQ9IzOCkC2GANJuLo93Ts+POKdxIyyhGCOD9wqQL7drvKLhC6foEjiUYtHyQM+li+j/W7d7yreOkLbd/AdAe0sEsfCzEw+DOdYOA7pONnec6+IlWz26uIXL1Mv2ze13FKTTCN9HAS9SnfJ0JiF9H2H+I+vbEhxQ= In-Reply-To: <200612082310.24140.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> (Josef Weidendorfer's message of "Fri, 8 Dec 2006 23:10:23 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gspei-0000Xq-Tf for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 01:01:29 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758826AbWLIAAS (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Dec 2006 19:00:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759779AbWLIAAC (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Dec 2006 19:00:02 -0500 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.229]:58158 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1947522AbWLHX7r (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Dec 2006 18:59:47 -0500 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h27so949825wxd for ; Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:59:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.32.13 with SMTP id f13mr6925328wxf.1165622386585; Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:59:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from ziti.local ( [140.107.181.122]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id i20sm3655796wxd.2006.12.08.15.59.45; Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:59:45 -0800 (PST) To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Josef Weidendorfer writes: > On Friday 08 December 2006 21:45, Luben Tuikov wrote: >> This is how perforce does it*, and while it is useful, git is NOT perforce, >> and I agree with Junio and Jakub. > > However, the idea itself is not bad. AFAIK, cogito does it this way. > It could be done as separate command, e.g. "git add --interactive", > and would only update the index. I think such a feature could be quite useful and it would seem to be an easy thing to provide in an optional or configurable fashion so that those that don't like it could avoid it. Spelling out a bunch of files spread around your tree for update-index can be annoying. Some way of marking a list seems natural. Maybe that is a separate issue. + seth