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It makes sense as a tool that should be available. It does not make sense as a default hoop everyone has to jump through. The way that stash, index, working dir

• cyphar 8y ago
  "git commit -a" will skip staging entirely if that's what you'd like to do. Should "-a" have been the default? Maybe, but that doesn't mean that you can't use it. Now, if you want to exclude certain files from a commit I will freely admit this is a pain. The easiest way, especially if you have loads of untracked files you don't want to commit, is to do: % git commit -a && git reset HEAD~ <file> && git commit --amend Which is pretty awful, I will admit. I had an alias to do this a while ago (without the need to amend the commit) but it wasn't great fun. However staging is still a useful concept, and "gl commit" as far as I can tell doesn't really allow me to do something I do quite often ("git add -p" to add partial hunks of a change to staging for a commit). I recognise that I'm probably in the vast minority (outside of the kernel community) when it comes to my Git usage, but staging is definitely quite important for some Git usecases.