Re: git-commit: select which files to commit while editing the commit message

Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] writes:

Seth Falcon wrote:

quoted

Spelling out a bunch of files spread around your tree for update-index
can be annoying.  Some way of marking a list seems natural.  Maybe
that is a separate issue.

Perhaps git-commit should also accept --exclude=<pattern> option?
Would that help?

I don't think I understand what an --exclude=<pattern> option would
do, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't help the use case I'm thinking of:

   Editing away, you've made changes in 8 files.

   Reviewing diff, you want to commit 6 of those and continue working
   on the other two.

   It seems that there could be a less manual way than 
   git update-index f1 f2 ... f6


Hmm, maybe I could do:

   git diff --name-only > changed
   ## edit changed
   cat changed|xargs git update-index

I suppose this could be wrapped in a simple way to bring up an editor.