Re: [PATCH] RFC - Say goodbye to the rodent

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Aug 5, 2009, 11:54 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqljlycw77.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <1249465906-3940-1-git-send-email-ayiehere@gmail.com>

Nazri Ramliy <ayiehere@gmail.com> writes:

> Oftentimes I get tired of moving my hand away from the comfort of the home rows
> of my keybard in order to grab the mouse to highlight the files that I'd like
> to operate on.

Usually, when you cut-and-paste from $(git status), it's to run a staging/unstaging command, or to view a diff.

Actually, "git add -i" is already a pretty good way of doing this, with few keystrokes.

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> Example:
>
> $ git status --id
> # On branch local
> # Changed but not updated:
> #   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
> #   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
> #
> #       modified:   builtin-write-tree.c (m1)
> #
> # Untracked files:
> #   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
> #
> #       file1.c (x1)
> #       file2.c (x2)

$ git add -i
           staged     unstaged path
  1:    unchanged        +1/-0 builtin-write-tree.c

*** Commands ***
  1: [s]tatus     2: [u]pdate     3: [r]evert     4: [a]dd untracked
  5: [p]atch      6: [d]iff       7: [q]uit       8: [h]elp

> Now we can do the following:
>
> $ git add --id m1

What now> u
           staged     unstaged path
  1:    unchanged        +1/-0 [b]uiltin-write-tree.c
Update>> 1
           staged     unstaged path
* 1:    unchanged        +1/-0 [b]uiltin-write-tree.c
Update>> 
updated one path

*** Commands ***
  1: [s]tatus     2: [u]pdate     3: [r]evert     4: [a]dd untracked
  5: [p]atch      6: [d]iff       7: [q]uit       8: [h]elp

> Ids are specified via the --id command line option, and can be separated with
> commas if you want to specify more than one of them:
>
> $ git add --id m1,x2

What now> a
  1: file1.c
  2: file2.c
Add untracked>> 1
* 1: file1.c
  2: file2.c
Add untracked>> 2
* 1: file1.c
* 2: file2.c
Add untracked>> 
added 2 paths

for these examples, I have far fewer keystrokes with "git add -i" than you have. I don't think it's worth adding yet-another-option to most Git commands since it doesn't really bring much IMHO.

-- 
Matthieu