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Re: Autosplit option for git add -p

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DSDragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Date
Jun 8, 2024, 10:47 UTC
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Hello,
On 2024-06-08 12:43, Christian Couder wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 11:06 AM Konstantin Tokarev <annulen@yandex.ru> 
> wrote:
>> Is there any option in git to make `git add -p` split hunks by
>> default, just like 's' was pressed automatically? If no, how would one
>> implement such an option?
> 
> It doesn't look like there is any option to do that. About
> implementing it, it depends if it would be a command line option or a
> config option.

To me, a new command-line option would make more sense. Though, perhaps a new configuration option could also make sense when enabled for particular repositories, but that could also trigger the main red flag, which is that a repository configuration can change the user experience, so I'm not sure it wouldn't be frowned upon.

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> Anyway I think you might want to take a look at the run_add_p()
> function in "add-patch.c".
> 
>> My use case: I've recently started working with big LaTeX document
>> having every paragraph as a single line. As a result, hunks quickly
>> become larger than screen, so that splitting is highly desirable.
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  1. Konstantin TokarevJun 7, 2024
  2. Christian CouderJun 8, 2024
  3. Dragan SimicJun 8, 2024
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 8, 2024

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