From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse•cz>
To: Robert Anderson <rwa000@gmail•com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: An alternate model for preparing partial commits
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:50:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080627085007.GE12567@machine.or.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9af502e50806262350t6e794a92g7751147f1882965@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:50:06PM -0700, Robert Anderson wrote:
> Seems to me the concept of the "index" is a half-baked version of what
> I really want, which is the ability to factor a working tree's changes
> into its constituent parts in preparation for committing them. The
> index provides some very nice facilities to factor out changes in a
> working tree into a "staging area", but the fundamental flaw of this
> in my view is that this "staging area" is not instantiated as a tree,
> so it cannot be compiled and/or tested before committing.
>
> Consider a facility where the state you want to commit next is built
> up in the current working directory, and the original set of changes
> exists in some proto-space like the index currently inhabits, where
> you can query and manipulate that state, but it isn't instantiated in
> your working tree.
I wanted to suggest using commit and commit --amend, but I realized
that frankly, I don't understand quite what are you wanting to do.
Through the process, are you preparing a sequence of two commits at
once, or merely a single commit? With s/--prep/--cached/ and throwing
git prep away completely, it's not clear to me how would what you
present be different at all from just using index - could you point out
what is actually different in your workflow compared to the prep
workflow you propose?
--
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- J. Olson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-27 8:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <willow-jeske-01l7H4tHFEDjCgPV-01l7H4sOFEDjCbyi>
2008-06-27 6:50 ` An alternate model for preparing partial commits Robert Anderson
2008-06-27 7:10 ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-06-27 14:37 ` [PATCH/RFC] stash: introduce 'stash save --keep-index' option SZEDER Gábor
2008-06-27 18:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-27 16:54 ` An alternate model for preparing partial commits Robert Anderson
2008-06-27 17:27 ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-06-27 17:34 ` Robert Anderson
2008-06-27 8:35 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-06-27 17:01 ` Robert Anderson
2008-06-27 8:50 ` Petr Baudis [this message]
2008-06-27 17:02 ` Robert Anderson
2008-06-27 13:33 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-27 13:49 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-06-27 17:14 ` Robert Anderson
2008-06-27 17:45 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-27 17:49 ` Robert Anderson
[not found] ` <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806271854120.9925@racer>
2008-06-27 18:07 ` Robert Anderson
2008-06-27 18:20 ` Dana How
2008-06-27 20:31 ` Stephen Sinclair
2008-06-27 20:45 ` David Jeske
2008-06-27 20:45 ` David Jeske
2008-06-28 17:23 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-06-28 2:14 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-06-28 2:57 ` Robert Anderson
2008-06-28 4:03 ` Dmitry Potapov
[not found] ` <9af502e50806272320p23f01e8eo4a67c5f6f4476098@mail.gmail.com>
2008-06-28 6:31 ` Fwd: " Robert Anderson
2008-06-28 12:38 ` Dmitry Potapov
[not found] ` <20080628123522.GL5737@dpotapov.dyndns.org>
2008-06-28 15:53 ` Robert Anderson
2008-06-28 16:52 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-06-27 18:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-27 18:43 ` Robert Anderson
2008-06-28 5:03 ` Jeff King
2008-06-28 7:03 ` Robert Anderson
2008-06-28 8:53 ` Jeff King
2008-06-28 21:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-28 14:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-08 4:58 ` Jeff King
2008-06-27 20:29 ` David Jeske
2008-06-27 20:29 ` David Jeske
2008-06-27 20:47 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-27 20:51 ` David Jeske
2008-06-27 20:51 ` David Jeske
[not found] ` <-8386235276716376372@unknownmsgid>
2008-06-27 22:55 ` Robert Anderson
2008-06-27 23:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-28 0:08 ` Robert Anderson
2008-06-28 2:57 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-06-28 3:31 ` Robert Anderson
2008-06-28 14:34 ` Stephen Sinclair
2008-06-28 16:00 ` Robert Anderson
2008-06-28 16:30 ` Robert Anderson
2008-06-28 17:12 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-28 18:25 ` Robert Anderson
2008-06-28 19:12 ` David Jeske
2008-06-28 19:12 ` David Jeske
2008-06-28 19:13 ` Stephen Sinclair
2008-06-28 0:22 ` David Jeske
2008-06-28 0:22 ` David Jeske
2008-06-28 1:17 Theodore Tso
2008-06-28 1:56 ` Miklos Vajna
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-06-28 1:23 Theodore Tso
2008-06-28 9:30 Stephen R. van den Berg
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