Thanks for git and especially thanks for git add --interactive

Hi,

I don't know who to thank directly, and I guess it is a community effort anyway, but I just wanted to thank everyone involved in making git add --interactive and its wrapper git commit --interactive. IMO it has really revolutionized my development workflow and dramatically improved the quality of the commits I create. I often spend longer using it to create a clean crafted series of patches than I have spent on making the actual changes. I have seen people describe it as an "advanced" feature, and maybe it is, but I think it is one of the *killer* features of git that has impacted the quality of commits across the industry.

git as a whole is a wonderful and fantastic tool that has obviously completely transformed the version control part of our industry, but commit interactive has completely and utterly changed how I think about writing patches and the quality of the commits I produce. It is not unusual for me to use an almost completely reverse workflow than I used to. I often create a change, not worrying too much about how I structure the commits on the way to the final state, then I squash them down to the final state I am happy with, and then work backwards to create a tailored series of commits that changes the code to that final state. That is something that I cannot imagine doing without git.

So thanks to everybody on this list, Linus, Junio, and everybody involved with making git such an awesome tool, but *especial* thanks to whomever it was that dreamed up the interactive commit modes and everyone else who worked to make it such a fantastic tool. It has literally changed my life.

cheers, Yves