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I use git on the CLI exclusively. I almost never rebase, but otherwise get by with about 5-10 commands. One that will totally change your experience is
git add -pI also have my diff/mergetool configured to use kaleidoscope, but still do everything else in the CLI.
The documentation is entirely meaningless? What does it do?
You can stage individual chunks of a file.
Useful if you have a large set of changes you want to make separate commits for. I also just find that it’s a good way to do a review of each chunk before committing changes blindly.
Give it a shot some time, worst case is you stage some stuff that you don’t want to commit, but it’s non-destructive.
I'll occasionally
It's clunky but it's robust and safe. It does sound a lot cleaner to just use
commit -pthoughYeah, -p can help with that. I’m not much for “commit grooming” - as long as a branch merges to main cleanly and passes tests, I don’t care about an “ugly” commit history.
git add -pis great to know, but IMO one shouldn't rely on it too much, because one should strive committing early and often (which eliminates the need for that command). Also usinggit add -phas the risk of accidentally not adding some code that actually belongs to the change you are trying to commit. That has happened to me sometimes in the past and only later do I see that the changes I commited are broken because I excluded some code that I thought didn't belong to that feature.There are other reasons to use it. A major one is doing a “code review” of changes before committing, or even deciding to drop a chunk of code from a commit entirely (like a debug statement that no longer is necessary.)
I’m all about frequent commits (and right-sized commits), but the functionality can still be beneficial even in those scenarios.
I also don’t care if I have a broken commit. This turns up very quickly, and there is zero expectation that feature branches are always in a working/stable state. The expectation is that pending work gets off the local machine on a regular interval.