The entire point of a GUI is you get the behavior of -p and --dry-run in a much richer context! I've never seen a GUI that doesn't let you very easily select specific lines for commits and I honestly wouldn't use one that didn't.
I cannot imagine using git and only being able to push entire files...
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And for the record, I use Sublime Merge and it does a great job mapping to terminal commands.
Hover over any button and you get the exact git command it will run. It doesn't mess with your tree directly, every action maps to a normal human readable git command.
If you want to make a stash with untracked files for example, you just hit the arrow next to "Stash" and get a dropdown with command line args and descriptions for what they do. Sublime Merge will then run it with the exact args you entered, show you the exact CLI command it used, and will show you the exact output.
For me Sublime Merge is strictly better than a terminal. I'm comfortable with terminal commands but it's the terminal with a very nice diff view, clean graphs, easier text editing, etc. I never have any ambiguity about what it's going to do.
I cannot imagine using git and having a reason to commit only half a file. I've known it was possible for several years. But never once has it been a solution to any problem I've had. I suppose we both have limited imaginations.
I know this is covering a mistake, but I've occasionally done one thing, then done a separate thing without committing (especially easy to do with things like one-line version bumps or super trivial bug fixes), then used git commit -p to commit+push the first change while still working on the second change locally. Obviously this only comes up because I suck at task management, but it is a real-life time when the feature is helpful.
I cannot imagine using git and only being able to push entire files...
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And for the record, I use Sublime Merge and it does a great job mapping to terminal commands.
Hover over any button and you get the exact git command it will run. It doesn't mess with your tree directly, every action maps to a normal human readable git command.
If you want to make a stash with untracked files for example, you just hit the arrow next to "Stash" and get a dropdown with command line args and descriptions for what they do. Sublime Merge will then run it with the exact args you entered, show you the exact CLI command it used, and will show you the exact output.
For me Sublime Merge is strictly better than a terminal. I'm comfortable with terminal commands but it's the terminal with a very nice diff view, clean graphs, easier text editing, etc. I never have any ambiguity about what it's going to do.