On 2015-01-30 10:22-0800 David MacMahon wrote:

> I first thought that [git add] was a weird and annoying extra step, but I have
grown fond of this capability as well.  I often find myself with
several files to commit, yet the changes are not all related.  Git
makes it easy to commit only some of my modified files, so I can make
each commit contain just the changes that I want to group together.

Thanks, Dave.  Your above comment perfectly captures my own reactions
to "git add" over time.

I have not yet tried the -p (--patch) or -i (--interactive)
capabilities of this command, but they do seem quite powerful.

Alan
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