Re: wishlist: "--cached|--staged" to "git commit file(s)"
On Mon, 13 Aug 2018, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > command. ATM there is no non-interactive (via --patch/--interactive I
> > think it is possible) way to commit selected subset of staged files not
> > from the worktree (as it is done with "git commit file(s)") but from the
> > index.
> Hmph, so
> edit A B C
> git add A B
> edit A B C
> git commit --cached B
> would create a commit that is different from the original HEAD by
> the edit to file B you did in the first step, but not the edit to A
> or C, or edit to B after you did "git add"?
> That sounds like a useful feature. If you do not need that "exclude
> the later edit since the last 'git add'", you can do "git commit B",
> but if you added crufts to B in the working tree since you added a
> good copy of B to the index, that would not do what you want to do.
> Sounds like a good starter project for somebody who wants to try to
> get their hands dirty...
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