Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: May 10, 2007, 22:06 UTC
Message-ID: <20070510220649.GL3141@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vzm4dplhu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

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> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> 
> > And unlike the "simpler" model of committing individual hunks
> > with "git add -i" or something like that, my model is actually
> > much superior!
> 
> I obviously agree with this.  As I said a few times I regret
> introducing "add -i" --- it encourages a wrong workflow, in that
> what you commit in steps never match what you had in the working
> tree and could have tested until the very end.

Which is why I'm considering shelving support (of some kind) in git-gui... but I'm probably not going to take away the current index view, nor am I going to take away the current hunk selection.

But I would like to make it easier for non-patching-editing gods (Linus) to pull hunks in from a shelf, test them, and commit them.

Said shelf probably would be another branch, much as Linus' nicely documented workflow does...

-- 
Shawn.