From: Christian Neukirchen Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2016 19:49:43 GMT Subject: Re: git add -p—splitting hunks, limit is too large Message-ID: <87mvjqjd48.fsf@juno.home.vuxu.org> In-Reply-To: <20160902191425.ki7nfhlqgnihoqpw@sigill.intra.peff.net> Jeff King writes: > Splitting to single lines means you need to remember to add the matched > pairs, which might be arbitrarily far apart. That's not really any > different than dumping the hunk in your editor, but I find there that > it's easy to rearrange and group things as appropriate. My main use case for this would be to split a plain addition into several small additions. Which would be much easier with the menu-driven approach. (Mostly I just use magit, but sometimes I want to do this on machines without emacs set up.) -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org