That would remove a huge amount of flexibility from the commit process, though. git add -p (and its siblings) are a huge part of my workflow. I often work on mu

That would remove a huge amount of flexibility from the commit process, though. git add -p (and its siblings) are a huge part of my workflow. I often work on multiple changes at once, but break them out into their own atomic commits with the ‘-p’ flag. What would be great is a simple way to have build/lint/etc. tools look at the staging area instead of the workspace.