Re: Can we do better than "git checkout/add -p"

On 10.08.26 08:03, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

I've been playing around with the thought of introducing ncurses-based
interfaces into Git. I've been mostly thinking about git-history(1) here
so that you can just move commits around, squash them together, drop
them and so on. But I think fancy stuff like TUIs can also be applied to
other parts of Git, as well, to make things a bit more visual to our
users and, as a consequence, easier to use.

That sounds a whole lot like lazygit to me [1]; it does all those things
in a rather intuitive way, including Junio's original use case of
selecting a hunk and staging or discarding it.

Is it really worth adding such functionality to core git? I like the
idea of tools specializing on what they do well; core git on providing
the core functionality, GUI tools on presenting it in a UI.

[1] https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit