Re: How to remove a specific hunk

From: Olivier Ramonat <olivier@ramonat.fr>
Date: Oct 26, 2007, 21:59 UTC
Message-ID: <87prz1a65q.fsf@tah.ramonat.fr>
In-Reply-To: <47220A05.4040705@wanadoo.fr>

Pascal,

Pascal Obry <pascal.obry@wanadoo.fr> writes:

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> Andreas,
>
>> Once you've added the other two hunks, they'll no longer show up in
>> git-diff, so you can do something like this:
>> 
>> $ git-add -i; # add the other two hunks to commit
>> $ git-diff > middle-hunk.patch
>> $ git-apply -R middle-hunk.patch
>> test, test, test
>> $ git-apply middle-hunk.patch
>
> Thanks, this will clearly work. I was expecting something more
> integrated like a "git reset --interactive" or something like that :)

A solution could be :

git add -i --> Add the two "good" hunks

git checkout-index file_with_bad_hunk --> Remove the "bad" hunk by getting the staged version

And then git reset HEAD file_with_bad_hunk if you want to unstage it.

Olivier