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by wingerlang 1960 days ago
Is it really that much state? For example, the thing I am working on right this moment have the following changes:

1. I changed my environment URL because I need to test on a specific one.

2. My actual feature changes, couple of files and a hundred lines changed.

3. A bunch of debug print messages, some are intertwined within the changes in 2, and some are in other places.

I will stage most of things in 2, probably in multiple commits to group logically. Most of 1,3 will simply be discarded once I comment and test final version. 1, might stick around for the next features I work on.

I can not believe this is too much state, nor can I believe this is not a fairly common workflow for developers?

How would you do this without staging? Would you discard the temporary changes and commit, then possibly write them back manually?

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I appreciate the Wordpress example but I’m not familiar with it so it flies right over my head to be honest.