From: Sylvain Rabot Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:38:18 GMT Subject: Re: Add warning when there are changes in the index and using -a with git commit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <0CCBCCA0-8378-42A8-A925-F60AA09949DC@wincent.com> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 23:38, Wincent Colaiuta wrote: > Without even really meaning to, I ended up training myself to only commit what's staged in the index, because early on I acquired the habit of always reviewing every single changed hunk by using "git add --patch" (in fact I use it so often that I've created an alias of "git patch" for it). There's no telling how many times this kind of last-minute hunk-by-hunk reviewing has saved me from committing bad code. Well, the thing is I do that to but instinctively, 3 seconds after, I do my git commit -as -m "blah", making useless the time I spend staging hunks with git add -p -- Sylvain