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Comment by marcinkuzminski | Hacker News Reader

The latests iteration of hg crecord which is an interactive selection tool for chunks (see it in action here: http://g.recordit.co/BfbSa7cMXn.gif) Is far far better than git staging area. Intuitive to use, i can submit hours of code in few nice selective chunks really easy.

This sole function built in is a game-changer in mercurial for me.

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You can get very similar functionality for git with "magit", which is an emacs package for managing git.

That said: Partially commiting files is indeed very handy and it would be great if it was available to more people.

It strikes me there's nothing inherently mercurial specific to this tool. This could very well be ported as a UI for git add -p.

I think GIT staging area wouldn't make it so nice to use in the end. Unless the whole thing is abstracted more, but then we get into the gitless discussion again.

I think it already exists as a graphical tool for Git, check out `git gui`.

If you don't have a stage then you don't get to edit/stage/edit/stage/fix/commit, right? I use that workflow a lot. I generally like incrementally building and refining my next commit. The stage/index is one of Git's most innovative features IMHO.

The same workflow can be accomplished by amending commits in git, without a whole new set of semantics needed for managing the staging area (or needing to stash changes when switching branches).

Your gif results in a 403, so I can't compare directly, but I get the impression that more people need to learn about `git gui` ;)

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