From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:53:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a".
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0611300050180.30004@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <87ejrlvn7r.wl%cworth@cworth.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Carl Worth wrote:

> [As an aside, the situation of independent changes being mixed in a 
> working tree is not always so lucky as to be cleanly separated into 
> disjoint file sets. When it's not, I have to disentangle them. Now, the 
> index could really help during this operation too, but we would need 
> better tools than update-index which only works on a per-file basis. 
> Something that let me easily select chunks of the patch would be really 
> nice.]

I regularly do something like

	$ git diff [file] > a1.patch
	$ vi a1.patch
	  [edit out the chunks I want to commit]
	$ git apply -R < a1.patch
	$ git commit [file]
	$ git apply < a1.patch

Seems a little bit convoluted, but works...

Hth,
Dscho