On Mon, 13 Aug 2018, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > command. ATM there is no non-interactive (via --patch/--interactive I > > think it is possible) way to commit selected subset of staged files not > > from the worktree (as it is done with "git commit file(s)") but from the > > index. > Hmph, so > edit A B C > git add A B > edit A B C > git commit --cached B > would create a commit that is different from the original HEAD by > the edit to file B you did in the first step, but not the edit to A > or C, or edit to B after you did "git add"? yes > That sounds like a useful feature. If you do not need that "exclude > the later edit since the last 'git add'", you can do "git commit B", > but if you added crufts to B in the working tree since you added a > good copy of B to the index, that would not do what you want to do. exactly > Sounds like a good starter project for somebody who wants to try to > get their hands dirty... asking "around" ;-) -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Center for Open Neuroscience http://centerforopenneuroscience.org Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik
