[saurik]

That's how you get good commits... you do a bunch of changes to understand what you should have done and then you retell the story by carving it into commits. I have been doing this constantly for like a decade now and almost never "give up"... in contrast, Subversion, which doesn't have a staging area, is almost impossible to use as it requires you to somehow code in order the first time, which is ridiculous: no one is that perfect.