Thanks for git and especially thanks for git add --interactive

Thanks for git and especially thanks for git add --interactive

[demerphq]

Hi,

I don't know who to thank directly, and I guess it is a community
effort anyway, but I just wanted to thank everyone involved in making
git add --interactive and its wrapper git commit --interactive. IMO it
has really revolutionized my development workflow and dramatically
improved the quality of the commits I create. I often spend longer
using it to create a clean crafted series of patches than I have spent
on making the actual changes. I have seen people describe it as an
"advanced" feature, and maybe it is, but I think it is one of the
*killer* features of git that has impacted the quality of commits
across the industry.

git as a whole is a wonderful and fantastic tool that has obviously
completely transformed the version control part of our industry, but
commit interactive has completely and utterly changed how I think
about writing patches and the quality of the commits I produce. It is
not unusual for me to use an almost completely reverse workflow than I
used to. I often create a change, not worrying too much about how I
structure the commits on the way to the final state, then I squash
them down to the final state I am happy with, and then work backwards
to create a tailored series of commits that changes the code to that
final state. That is something that I cannot imagine doing without
git.

So thanks to everybody on this list, Linus, Junio, and everybody
involved with making git such an awesome tool, but *especial* thanks
to whomever it was that dreamed up the interactive commit modes and
everyone else who worked to make it such a fantastic tool. It has
literally changed my life.

cheers,
Yves

-- 
perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"

Re: Thanks for git and especially thanks for git add --interactive

[Junio C Hamano]

demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> writes:

> I don't know who to thank directly, and I guess it is a community
> effort anyway, but I just wanted to thank everyone involved in making
> ... I have seen people describe it as an
> "advanced" feature, and maybe it is, but I think it is one of the
> *killer* features of git that has impacted the quality of commits
> across the industry.
> ...
> So thanks to everybody on this list, Linus, Junio, and everybody
> involved with making git such an awesome tool, but *especial* thanks
> to whomever it was that dreamed up the interactive commit modes and
> everyone else who worked to make it such a fantastic tool. It has
> literally changed my life.

You're welcome ;-)

If you limit your search of origin to the Git land, I am reasonably
sure that I am to blame for "add -i", but I'd freely admit that I
stole it from darcs.  They may or may not have borrowed from
somewhere else, but at this point I do not really care where it came
from ;-)