Re: git commit -p with file arguments

From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 9, 2016, 20:52 UTC
Message-ID: <87inu4bxt7.fsf@juno.home.vuxu.org>
In-Reply-To: <23de5ffe-eaf8-2d62-2202-f1bf6087d44b@gmail.com>

Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

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> Which means that with "git add -p <pathspec> && git commit <pathspec>",
> the "git add -p <pathspec>" would carefully craft the <pathspec> state
> in the index... and "git commit <pathspec>" would take worktree version
> of <pathspec> for commit, ignoring what was in the index :-(
>
> Currently there is no way to create commit out of subset of the index,
> e.g. with "git commit :0:<path>"

I played around with creating a new index just for "add -p" and then committing that one. Seems to have worked...

Perhaps I'll just wrap git-commit myself then.

cu,

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