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Re:High-Level Problems with Git and How to Fix Them by masklinn on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @07:57AM (#15905250)
> I realize that I've actually made three separate subchanges so I do partial stages to create each commit.

You can trivially replicate that without staging by amending the HEAD commit, or building a bunch of partial commits then folding them with rebase -i. You can even do that automatically by committing with --fixup or --squash

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Re:High-Level Problems with Git and How to Fix Them by uiri on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @11:35AM (#15906892)
That assumes that I'm making multiple smaller commits along the way. I'm not. Without staging, I'm stuck making one big commit. Splitting a single big commit into multiple smaller commits with an interactive rebase is dependent upon the staging area too.
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Re:High-Level Problems with Git and How to Fix Them by masklinn on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @11:38AM (#15906925)
> That assumes that I'm making multiple smaller commits along the way. I'm not. Without staging, I'm stuck making one big commit.

Errr… no you're not. `commit -p` exists.

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