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I am looking for a better description of staging files with git itself (other than Git big commit best practices). I don't need to stash files into smaller commits, ignore files by pattern, etc. What I am looking for is a tutorial that is only about adding files - efficient by browsing through big packs (up to 100) of "unstaged" files and maybe editing them (as hunks).

Command line tricks with pipeline filtering like in 

git status -uno --porcelain | gawk '{ print $2 }' | xargs echo | xargs git add

are offtopic.

Bottom line: I am looking for tips to "master" interactive mode and patterns in staging with

git add
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Yauhen Yakimovich
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    Pipes aren't "command line tricks". They're integral to using your tools correctly and effectively. By ignoring them you're crippling yourself. – user229044 Jun 08 '11 at 17:35
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    Pipelining should not be a primary choice, if there is a shorter way (native functionality). My question concerns itself with finding such an alternative with git itself. Please note, it is not about 5-10 files, it is about staging 40-50 of them and they don't have a trivial masking subset. Pipelining costs time to debug up to precise result. That's why I excluded this option from the start. Simply not good enough, sorry. – Yauhen Yakimovich Jun 09 '11 at 09:31
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    Welcome to the command line. You're not going to enjoy your stay with that attitude. – user229044 Jun 09 '11 at 13:59
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    @meagar IMO You are completely missing the point ;) My question is about learning git not pipes – Yauhen Yakimovich Jun 09 '11 at 15:39

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Why is 

git add -p -- some/dir

not good enough?

There is also git-gui

Hope this helps

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    yep, *git gui* seems to address the problem. But best would be actually a link to blog or a tutorial for an interactive mode. – Yauhen Yakimovich Jun 09 '11 at 09:24
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    It looks like I was looking for this explanation of interactive mode (http://book.git-scm.com/4_interactive_adding.html), including the revert case. – Yauhen Yakimovich Jun 10 '11 at 10:13
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Just wanted to mention that now I use in my daily git business

git commit -a

or if I need to make choices the interactive mode with

git add -i
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