[JamesSwift]

I've not had that experience at all. For the times you know it would be tedious to add/ignore all diffs manually, you can just use the 'a' or 'd' commands to add or ignore for the remainder of the current file. I much prefer using 'add -p' every single time I commit.

[michaelmior]

Then you've been lucky. Although if you show others on your team this approach, I think something bad is guaranteed to happen eventually.