But sometimes the subset of files to include in the first commit is longest than the ones to be included in the second... so perhaps something like
fossil ci -m "first commit" --ignore file1 file2 would be easier than: fossil ci -m "first commit" file3 file4 file5 file6... file12 On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 2:13 PM, paul <pault.eg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 20/03/15 08:16, Peter Spjuth wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 5:38 AM, Reimer Behrends <behre...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> First, the safer (and arguably overall better) approach is to recognize >> that stash/shelve operations are the inverse of the staging area for this >> purpose. I.e., rather than stage a partial commit, you stash everything but >> the partial commit, then commit whatever changes remain in toto. This does >> not require the staging area and ensures that, e.g., you're not committing >> something that doesn't even compile (which breaks bisect, CI tools, etc.). >> > > This is exactly my viewpoint. A work a lot in Subversion and I often miss > a stash, never a staging area. > I have used git's staging area as intended occasionally but mostly I find > it annoying. I feel slighty dirty > when I do a partial commit since I know it is, in theory at least, > untested. > > A stash with abilites like "git add --interactive" to stash parts within a > file is the way to go IMO. > > /Peter > > > > > When I was using git and came to fossil I missed the staging area. > Sometimes > when making a change I'd want to make a change to another part of the > software > to support the change I was making, and so then ended up doing two commits. > > The reason I liked the staging area was because before committing I'd > always > do diff/add/status, to review changes, and have one final check that > everthing > was OK before actually committing. > > Then I would add the remaining files and do the next commit. > > But as fossil can commit a subset of changes, I can still manage to do > what I > like. > > > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > >
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