From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:34:38 GMT
Subject: Re: Feature suggestion: new 'git add -i' command to discard working copy changes
Message-ID: <7vvcbzdoy9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <50D0DA19.5030606@cs.wisc.edu>

Evan Driscoll <driscoll@cs.wisc.edu> writes:

> It's not infrequent that I want to discard changes I've made locally to
> files ('git checkout file.txt') and find myself wishing that this was an
> action available from the 'git add --interactive' UI; it feels like it
> would fit in.

Hrm, not really.  "git add" is about manipulating the index and its
promise is that it won't touch working tree files.  And people rely
on that promise.

I can see how it would be useful to have a UI that is more
interactive than CLI that shows you a list of paths and lets you
pick from the list to run "git checkout" on, but I think "git add"
is a bad match to it.