Re: 2 questions/nits about commit and config

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Here is me thinking aloud again.

Before I started writing this message, I meant to address an
excellent point Carl Worth raised in an earlier thread.  "What
would I do for final sanity check before committing?".  So here
is a follow-up.

 - "git commit"

"git diff --cached HEAD".

 - "git commit --include paths..." (or "git commit -i paths...")

This is for people who work by taking advantage of the power of
the index file, i.e. perform "checking in without committing" by
running update-index whenever the changes so-far look good.
Combined use of "git diff --cached HEAD" (to look at diffs for
paths other than paths...) and "git diff HEAD paths..." would be
the _full_ "final sanity check", but in practice "git diff HEAD
paths..." or even "git diff paths..." would be more useful for
these people.  They've verified the changes so-far were sane
when they did update-index already.

 - "git commit paths..." acquires a new semantics.  This is an
   incompatible change that needs user training, which I am
   still a bit reluctant to swallow, but enough people seem to
   have complained.

"git diff HEAD paths...".