From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 14:48:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] user-manual: mention git gui citool (commit, amend)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708051547410.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <17AA7EBE-B755-4F26-9C7E-AF6D762811F2@zib.de>

Hi,

On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

> On Aug 5, 2007, at 3:58 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
> > 
> > > git gui is especially useful because it allows to select diff hunks.
> > 
> > You should give a _big_ _fat_ _red_ warning there.
> > 
> > If you selectively commit diff hunks, you _never_ tested what you
> > committed.
> > 
> > That is the reason we're not advertising git add -i more actively.
> 
> Hmm... If you do 'git cherry-pick' or 'git rebase' you also did
> not test what you committed. Should we advertise them less
> actively as well?

But you have that state in your working tree!  Big difference there!

Ciao,
Dscho