Re: git-commit: select which files to commit while editing the commit message

From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 10, 2006, 00:46 UTC
Message-ID: <200612100146.09175.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vfybpg9yx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Saturday 09 December 2006 01:59, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Maybe the "git add --interactive" would give you a transcript
> like this:
> 
>         $ git add --interactive '*.c' '*.h'
> 	showing list of modified files...
>          1) bozbar.c 2) filfre.c 3) frotz.h 4) nitfol.c 5) rezrov.h
>          6) xyzzy.c  7) yomin.h  8) z.c
>         choice> 2 3 5 6 7
> 	showing list of modified files...
>          1) bozbar.c 2* filfre.c 3* frotz.h 4) nitfol.c 5* rezrov.h
>          6* xyzzy.c  7* yomin.h  8) z.c
>         choice> 4+
> 	showing "git diff -- nitfol.c"...
>         diff --git a/nitfol.c b/nitfol.c
>         @@ -22,x +22,y @@
>          {
>         -	int i;
>         +	long i;
>         +	i = 314;
> 	 
>         stage this hunk [Yes/No/All/Done]? y

Wow. Something like this really would be good. And please a way to "unstage" accidently added files/hunks, too ;-)

I even miss such a feature in stgit ("specify hunks to break up one patch into two").