Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/3] Implement unstage --patch and discard --patch

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Thomas Rast[off-list ref] wrote:

This implements a new optional argument --patch=<mode> in the
git-add--interactive helper.  The modes are:

'stage' (default, as before): offer hunks from 'git diff' and stage
 the ones selected by the user.

'unstage': offer hunks from 'git diff --cached', and unstage the ones
 selected.

'discard': offer hunks from 'git diff', and discard (i.e., undo the
 edit in the working tree) the ones selected.

With this in hand, we can then easily add a --patch option to the
git-unstage and git-discard scripts that run git-add--interactive in
the corresponding modes.

While I do not really think even more git commands are so helpful, I
like the proposed command names, and I really like that it would be
possible to remove single hunks from the index. I have come to rely
very much on git add -p to make self-contained and clear commits and
think it would be a great feature if I could use this the other way
round too.


Thanks,
Matthias