Re: How to remove a specific hunk

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Oct 26, 2007, 16:49 UTC
Message-ID: <20071026164926.GA21160@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20071026164207.GB19673@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 12:42:08PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

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> That has the side effect of changing the index state. My preferred
> method would be to just excise the hunk from the diff using an editor
> (and this actually has nothing to do with git; you could be using
> diff/patch):
> 
> git-diff file >patch
> # remove every hunk except what you want to cut out
> $EDITOR patch
> git-apply -R patch

BTW, since this is inherently a non-git operation, there are other tools that some may find friendlier than an editor. Kompare will let you unapply differences, for example, and I would be shocked if emacs didn't have some tool for this.

-Peff