Ohh no, you should be able to decide which changes to commit, line by line, before committing them. What you describe sounds like a security nightmare to me.

Ohh no, you should be able to decide which changes to commit, line by line, before committing them. What you describe sounds like a security nightmare to me. Maybe you are using a remote dev server, and every change you do needs to be committed before you see the result? Please setup a local environment instead. Not even F5 should be required, you save a file, you see the result in the browser. When your work is finished, and only then, you should commit your changes.