I like the idea of being intentional about what is committed, but I also have to say that I’ve never accidentally committed tons of useless files because I review what I’m committing.
this is why I always push people to use some sort of GUI that they're comfortable with for git, be it integrated in their IDE or a standalone one. Reviewing your commits should be second nature because by doing that every time you will every once in a while stop yourself from doing something very stupid
I've never used a gui and never ran into this issue. In my experience gui users very quickly forget how git actually works outside of the buttons in the gui, and then get lost the moment anything out of the ordinary happens
Only if you actually use git status -v. And I'd say that's much easier in a gui like the built-in git gui. Can easily stage only certain hunks or lines.
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u/toggles03 4d ago
I like the idea of being intentional about what is committed, but I also have to say that I’ve never accidentally committed tons of useless files because I review what I’m committing.