Quoting Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> > "resetting index entries selectively" makes perfect sense. So do > "checking out index entries selectively" and "adding to index > selectively". Are you saying that you are fine with the concept of Thomas'es patch series but you don't want to see different words used to name these operations? In other words, do you mean the following would be a pair of better companions to "git add -p $file" than Thomas'es discard and unstage? - "git checkout -p $file" and "git checkout -p $commit $file" that let you view the patch to bring the file in the working tree to the version in the index (or the commit) and selectively apply that to the working tree and the index, to implement "discarding changes selectively". - "git reset -p $file" and "git reset -p $commit $file" that let you view the patch to bring the version of the file in the index to the version in the HEAD (or the commit) and selectively apply that to the index, to implement "undoing changes made to the index selectively". I think it preserves the UI consistency better to enhance checkout and reset than adding new commands to do conceptually the same thing. Unfortunately I don't know how hard the necessary change will be, because these two commands are now implemented in C... -- Nanako Shiraishi http://ivory.ap.teacup.com/nanako3/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html