Yes, but I think that's missing the point. It's routine to have lots of modifications to a code base at once -- the big one being extra logging or debug code floating around after a fix. At that point, you have to do a separation task where you prune out all the needless stuff.

That's what this is for. And it works pretty well. Any other helper for this task would look pretty much the same -- the goal after all is to translate your local hacks into a clean commit.