Once upon a time I used darcs, where the interactive staging / interactive committing feels even nicer. Git's "git add -i" stuff has always seemed crufty to me.
For instance, in git add -i, the command to stage changes is called "update". The command to unstage is called "revert". Further, does _anybody_ use interactive adding when not intending to stage individual hunks from some file ? Yet there are all these other commands in there to stage/unstage whole files, which are more easily and uniformly done from the command line tools (well, when you accept that staging is called "add"ding on the command line and unstaging is called "reset"ting).
For instance, in git add -i, the command to stage changes is called "update". The command to unstage is called "revert". Further, does _anybody_ use interactive adding when not intending to stage individual hunks from some file ? Yet there are all these other commands in there to stage/unstage whole files, which are more easily and uniformly done from the command line tools (well, when you accept that staging is called "add"ding on the command line and unstaging is called "reset"ting).