From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:06:10 GMT
Subject: Re: how to split a hunk
Message-ID: <200910281406.12923.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20091028022105.GE3938@debian.b2j>

bill lam wrote:
> 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.

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