Re: "groups of files" in Git?

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 11:10 AM, Nikolay Shustov
[off-list ref] wrote:

Thank you for the explanation. The example about backend and frontend
is relevant even though I normally have to deal with more layers at
the same time.

However, in my case I have the thing that you have already tried to
address, partially: the changes always align with file boundaries BUT
not with directory boundaries. Imagine you have the stack of backend,
data transport and frontend layers. The feature has to touch all three
layers thus resulting in the changes in the apparently different
directories. Thus, making the distinction by the pathspec (if I
understood it right from reading the documentation) would not help.

The attributes could be a solution, if I could:
1. create attribute designated to the feature
2. "mark" uncommitted files in different directory with that attribute

1+2 should be answered by the gitattributes man page
https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes

3. filter the list of unchanged files with such attribute

This sounds like one of
  "git status :(attr:backend) ."
  "git status :(exclude,attr:backend) ."

4. create commit for the files only with the certain attribute

You've kindly demonstrated that #4 is doable; however I could not
clearly get for the Git documentation if #1 - #3 are achievable...
Could you point me to the right place in the documentation, please?