Partial commits made easy

[Douglas Philips]

On 2008 Jul 13, at 6:29 AM, Andreas Axelsson indited:

> A nice feature in Perforce is that as you bring up the editor for a  
> commit message, all the files to be committed are listed below the  
> check in comment, just as in Mercurial. However, if you remove any  
> files from the list, they aren’t committed and stay in their  
> modified state. Compare with git’s “add” command. It’s quite a nice  
> feature to have when you want to commit a subset of a list of files  
> for which there are no simple wildcards.
>
> I’ve yet to dive into the Hg codebase, since I’ve had major troubles  
> getting a compatible build environment up and running, otherwise I’d  
> give it a shot myself. Or does anyone else volunteer?

I hope that doesn't become standard behaviour. The list of files there  
is a comment reminding the commit message writer of what is going to  
be committed. I ignore the list if it is small; if not I delete the  
entire thing so that I have more screen real estate to enter my commit  
message. Just my buck-two-fitty.
	--Doug