Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] add -p: select individual hunk lines

> 
> From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
> 
> I've added some documentation to git-add.txt for the new selection
> mode and cleaned up some style issues, otherwise these are unchanged
> since v1.  These patches build on top of the recount fixes in [1]. The
> commit message for the first patch describes the motivation:
> 
> "When I end up editing hunks it is almost always because I want to
> stage a subset of the lines in the hunk. Doing this by editing the
> hunk is inconvenient and error prone (especially so if the patch is
> going to be reversed before being applied). Instead offer an option
> for add -p to stage individual lines. When the user presses 'l' the
> hunk is redrawn with labels by the insertions and deletions and they
> are prompted to enter a list of the lines they wish to stage. Ranges
> of lines may be specified using 'a-b' where either 'a' or 'b' may be
> omitted to mean all lines from 'a' to the end of the hunk or all lines
> from 1 upto and including 'b'."
> 
> [1] https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqqbmg29x1n.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com/T/#m01d0f1af90f32b698e583b56f8e53b986bcec7c6