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

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Seth Falcon wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Perhaps git-commit should also accept --exclude=<pattern> option?
> Would that help?

I don't think I understand what an --exclude=<pattern> option would
do, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't help the use case I'm thinking of:

   Editing away, you've made changes in 8 files.

   Reviewing diff, you want to commit 6 of those and continue working
   on the other two.

   It seems that there could be a less manual way than 
   git update-index f1 f2 ... f6


Hmm, maybe I could do:

   git diff --name-only > changed
   ## edit changed
   cat changed|xargs git update-index

I suppose this could be wrapped in a simple way to bring up an editor.

+ seth
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