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Re: How to remove a specific hunk

From
Benoit SIGOURE <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>
Date
Oct 31, 2007, 10:10 UTC
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<13D08D3F-3647-4E20-AF80-8EC6FD14E66A@lrde.epita.fr>
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On Oct 26, 2007, at 9:20 PM, Alex Riesen wrote:
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> Pascal Obry, Fri, Oct 26, 2007 17:10:38 +0200:
>>
>> I'm very new to Git... but start to love it :)
>>
>> Before committing sometimes I want to remove a specific hunk. Say in
>> file a.txt I have in the diff 3 hunks, I want to revert/delete/remove
>> the second one. Is there a way to do that ?
>
> Take a look at git-gui. Try right-clicking in the diff pane at the
> bottom.

This only allows you to stage a given hunk, not to remove one. Right now I'm in a situation where I need to remove a specific hunk to compile and it's sad that git-gui doesn't provide an option so that you can right-click -> revert hunk.

-- 
Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory
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Message 11 of 15 in “How to remove a specific hunk”
  1. Pascal ObryOct 26, 2007
  2. Andreas EricssonOct 26, 2007
  3. Pascal ObryOct 26, 2007
  4. Benoit SIGOUREOct 26, 2007
  5. Johannes SchindelinOct 26, 2007
  6. Olivier RamonatOct 26, 2007
  7. Jeff KingOct 26, 2007
  8. Jeff KingOct 26, 2007
  9. Miles BaderOct 29, 2007
  10. Alex RiesenOct 26, 2007
  11. Benoit SIGOUREOct 31, 2007
  12. Johannes SchindelinOct 31, 2007
  13. Florian WeimerOct 31, 2007
  14. Pascal ObryOct 31, 2007
  15. Peter BaumannOct 31, 2007

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