From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:52:04 GMT
Subject: Re: How to split a big commit
Message-ID: <BANLkTim5j8cezy8jhs9dqPXYJRkRGf0GMA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110405000852.GA1704@elie>

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Duy,
>
> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
>
>> After a lot of small commits and a few mixed up large commits, it was
>> too messy that I merged them all into one big commit then started
>> spliting it into smaller, reasonable patches. Just wonder if anybody
>> else faces the same thing and how they deal with it. I used "git reset
>> --soft <big commit>^" and "git add -N" because there were new files,
>> but it was clumsy.
>
> I tend to do "git reset HEAD^ -- ." and then "git add -N ." and
> "git add -p", for what it's worth.

But you would need to undo "git add -N" for those files you don't want in yet?
-- 
Duy