From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:52:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [Census] So who uses git?
Message-ID: <7v7j8gyy2w.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <1138736666.24410.38.camel@cashmere.sps.mot.com>

Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com> writes:

> I have done this style of "update-index on more-or-less OK
> files in order to clear up the diff.  And it is also in that
> time frame that I start feeling that certain changes belong
> to "one commit" or another.  The result is, I want to then
> pick the parts that get committed together.  But _really_
> being certain exactly which files, and _only_ those files,
> will really be committed is tough.

	$ git diff --cached

would help.  If you are _only_ comitting either all changes or no
change per path, 'git diff --cached --name-status' would be
sufficient.