Hi,

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

So where doing the "git apply --index" thing is great is when you see a 
patch that has some obvious deficiency that makes you not want to commit 
it directly, but add some fixup of your own.

An obvious deficiency would also be the presence of hundreds of debug 
quirks I had to introduce to find the bug which I finally fixed. But I do 
not want to commit, because it is such a mess. So: into the index, ye 
files.

Now I can clean up everything I introduced to find the bug. If the result 
does not work as expected? "git diff"!

But now that I cleaned up the mess, I find that there is a more elegant 
way to solve the problem. Into the  index, ye files! Clicketyclick, if I 
mess up, I always have the state in the index!

Ciao,
Dscho