Re: An alternate model for preparing partial commits

[Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>]

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On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 02:33:33PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Having said that, I played with the idea of a "git stash -i", which would 
> allow you to select the changes to stash away.  (And by extension, "git 
> stash -e" using the "git add -e" command.)

If we are at it, git checkout -i is also something which may be useful,
like:

1) Do two unrelated changes in a file.

2) You realize one of them is unnecessary.

Currently what you can do is something like:

1) You stage the first hunk using git add -p

2) git commit

3) git checkout file

But this forces you to commit early, and to commit --amend later. It
would be nice to be able to completely drop a hunk without first
commiting.

(Feel free to point out if this is something bad, I just remember from
the past that darcs revert - which is like git checkout - had such an
interactive mode.)

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