Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

And unlike the "simpler" model of committing individual hunks
with "git add -i" or something like that, my model is actually
much superior!

I obviously agree with this.  As I said a few times I regret
introducing "add -i" --- it encourages a wrong workflow, in that
what you commit in steps never match what you had in the working
tree and could have tested until the very end.

Which is why I'm considering shelving support (of some kind) in
git-gui...  but I'm probably not going to take away the current
index view, nor am I going to take away the current hunk selection.

But I would like to make it easier for non-patching-editing gods
(Linus) to pull hunks in from a shelf, test them, and commit them.

Said shelf probably would be another branch, much as Linus' nicely
documented workflow does...

-- 
Shawn.