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Re: how to split a hunk

From
Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date
Oct 28, 2009, 13:06 UTC
Message-ID
<200910281406.12923.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To
<20091028022105.GE3938@debian.b2j>
bill lam wrote:
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> There are occasions where diff of a file is
> 
> - aaaa
> + bbbb
> + cccc
> 
> I want to add lines bbbb and cccc as separated commits, but git-add -p
> seem cannot further split this hunk.  Do I have no choice but to edit
> it by hand and commit the bbbb and then edit the file to add back the
> cccc?

There's also the 'git add -p' [e]dit feature, which pops up the patch in an editor. There are instructions in that file, but in this case, you can simply remove one of the additions.

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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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