> Le 2 juil. 2025 à 17:56, brian m. carlson <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>
> On 2025-07-02 at 18:30:17, Suraj Bhadrike wrote:
>> Hi Git contributors,
>>
>> This proposal introduces a new command git snap designed to support
>> highly iterative development workflows nowdays influenced by AI
>> coding assistants.
>>
>> The rise of AI assistants and agentic AI workflows has changed the
>> pace and nature of coding. A developer might cycle through dozens of
>> variations of a function or component in a short period while
>> collaborating with an AI.
>
> I mean, I do this too without an AI. I frequently want to make changes
> until something works, and then snapshot it and modify it to polish it
> and make it more presentable.
Yep. I think of this as “locally I do whatever I want; polish before publish.”
>
>> This feature would provide a soft commit or snapshot capability,
>> allowing developers to save their work state frequently and create a
>> new commit every time as a snapshot or checkpoint without a commit
>> message and flag where We can provide an option for developers to
>> include files at the start of snap Session.
>
> I think a lot of this is achievable with current functionality, just in
> a slightly different way.
Agreed. My variant is something like
Repeat: { hack && commit -m wip --amend }
The first commit omits the amend option, of course, and I can inspect previous snapshots with the reflog.
