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by abalashov 3938 days ago
This was the 'killer app' that compelled me to switch to Git from Subversion back in the day, rather than anything else about Git intrinsically. The ability to organise my commits logically rather than temporally (i.e. not just as a stupid log of change over time) was like night and day.
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> ability to organise my commits logically rather than temporally

I'm just getting started with Git; how do you do that? I googled it but nothing jumped out at me.

He referred to what the GP said - use "git add -p". Here's some introduction (I haven't watched it myself and can't comment on the quality):

http://johnkary.net/blog/git-add-p-the-most-powerful-git-fea...