Subject: Re: git-commit: select which files to commit while editing the commit message

From: Seth Falcon <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:59:44 -0800

Josef Weidendorfer <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Friday 08 December 2006 21:45, Luben Tuikov wrote:
>> This is how perforce does it*, and while it is useful, git is NOT perforce,
>> and I agree with Junio and Jakub.
>
> However, the idea itself is not bad. AFAIK, cogito does it this way.
> It could be done as separate command, e.g. "git add --interactive",
> and would only update the index.

I think such a feature could be quite useful and it would seem to be
an easy thing to provide in an optional or configurable fashion so
that those that don't like it could avoid it.  

Spelling out a bunch of files spread around your tree for update-index
can be annoying.  Some way of marking a list seems natural.  Maybe
that is a separate issue.

+ seth