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> Even better, use `git commit -p` and skip the staging area entirely. If you end up staging the wrong hunk, then you will have to reset and recommit. With gi

by u801e 8y ago

> Even better, use `git commit -p` and skip the staging area entirely. If you end up staging the wrong hunk, then you will have to reset and recommit. With git add -p, you would only need to reset the hunk.

tome 8y ago
You indeed have to recommit everything (which I prefer) but you don't have to reset anything (since nothing is in the staging area).
- u801e 8y ago
  >> If you end up staging the wrong hunk, then you will have to reset and recommit > you don't have to reset anything You have to reset the branch pointer to the previous commit, but I think using the --amend switch may do that for you.
  - tome 8y ago
    If you exit the commit message editor so that it retuns a non-zero exit code to git then nothing is committed and nothing is staged.
    - dllthomas 8y ago
      With git, usually (maybe always?) exiting having saved an empty buffer is equivalent.