I think I have implemented most suggestions in PatchV2. Thanks!
Any time I see "... X. This means Y." either in the doc or in the proposed log message, I wish the author (not you in this case, obviously) thought twice about rewriting so that they do not say one thing and immediately have to rephrase it, i.e. either just say Y without saying X, or saying X more clearly without having to say Y. In this case, however, I think X and Y are related but both relevant. The subcommand resets the index entries for chosen paths to match what is in the tree-ish, which is the same as restoring from a tree to the index. It is not quite the opposite of adding to the index from the working tree. In this sequence: $ edit newfile $ git add newfile and then further $ edit newfile $ git add newfile $ git reset -- newfile we are taken back to the state _before_ any of the changes made to newfile (in fact, since HEAD does not have newfile, the resulting index would not know about it, either).
I am a bit confused, is it correct that you don't expect me to change my patches?
