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When the workspace and the staging area aren’t in sync, the differences cannot be tested because the compiler doesn’t know how to deserialize the .git/index blob. The workspace is stored as normal source files, and committing those would be better.

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That would remove a huge amount of flexibility from the commit process, though. git add -p (and its siblings) are a huge part of my workflow. I often work on multiple changes at once, but break them out into their own atomic commits with the ‘-p’ flag.

What would be great is a simple way to have build/lint/etc. tools look at the staging area instead of the workspace.

For what it’s worth, I didn’t have much trouble switching from “git add -p” for changes I want now to “git stash -p” for changes I want later.

I’ll definitely give that a try

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