Re: Alternative to manual editing with git add --patch

Sven Helmberger [off-list ref] writes:

Hello,

I hope this hasn't been discussed before.

I'm a big fan of cleanliness in commits and therefore often use git add
--patch to sort code changes I made into the right commits etc.

What I then often encountered was the situation where I happened to have
inserted consecutive lines of code that conceptually belong to different
commits. Normally I can nicely split patches, but not in this case,
making manually editing the patch the only alternative.

Shouldn't there be at least a way to quickly say line-by-line if you
want to have it added or not?

Many GUI or text-editor plugins for Git allow you to just select lines
and stage the selection. Even though I love "git add -p", I find magit
(Git integration for Emacs) more convenient when it comes to staging
individual lines.

That said, a "split hunk line by line" option for "git add -p" could be
nice.

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Matthieu Moy
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