Re: Importing from tarballs; add, rm, update-index?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 12, 2007, 23:28 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701130023330.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7virfct737.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> "Chris Riddoch" <riddochc@gmail.com> writes:
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> > First, specifying extra files after 'git commit' bypasses the index.
> 
> Which I happen to think is a misfeature.

You probably should not teach people about that feature right away, because it has huge potential of shooting-yourself-in-your-own-foot.

But darn it, it's _useful_.

Very often I happen to find a subtle bug in the middle of my work. Which basically means that I have a dirty working tree, a dirty index, and I _need_ to commit something completely different. Usually it is a one-liner, which I don't even have to test in isolation, but with my dirty working tree. And usually it is in a file which was non-dirty until I put in a fix, so committing specific files -- bypassing the current index -- _is_ useful.

Ciao, Dscho