Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a".

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 30, 2006, 10:27 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0611301124260.30004@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611291859070.3513@woody.osdl.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So where doing the "git apply --index" thing is great is when you see a 
> patch that has some obvious deficiency that makes you not want to commit 
> it directly, but add some fixup of your own.

An obvious deficiency would also be the presence of hundreds of debug quirks I had to introduce to find the bug which I finally fixed. But I do not want to commit, because it is such a mess. So: into the index, ye files.

Now I can clean up everything I introduced to find the bug. If the result does not work as expected? "git diff"!

But now that I cleaned up the mess, I find that there is a more elegant way to solve the problem. Into the index, ye files! Clicketyclick, if I mess up, I always have the state in the index!

Ciao, Dscho