From: Jonathan del Strother <maillist@steelskies.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:09:09 GMT
Subject: Re: staging specific lines out of a hunk for a commit
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In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin4U78N_8LV8fCWuinNH9AFeOsRBjnvHM0qt2ZH@mail.gmail.com>

On 21 September 2010 11:40, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know 'git gui' has this cool feature where you can stage one line at
> a time. This is really handy, but also very annoying, if you have a
> large piece of code you want to commit.
>
> eg: I have a single hunk, which can't be split into smaller hunks
> because it is all new code. But that hunk fixes a few bugs, or
> introduces a few new features.
>
> Is there a way to use 'git add -i' or 'git add -p' or 'git gui' and
> tell it to add for example lines 5-20 of the hunk to the index?
> Currently with 'git gui', I have to right click and select 'Stage line
> for commit' 15+ times! :-(
>

If you happen to be on a Mac, gitx allows you to select the lines
you're interested in with the mouse and stage them.