staging specific lines out of a hunk for a commit

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! :-(

Maybe 'gui gui' can be enhance (don't know if development work is continuing on gui gui') to use the same feature as in the "unstaged changes" area of the UI. There you can simply click the icon next to the file name to add that file. Maybe the same could be implemented to the "diff" area of the UI. Simply click the first column in the diff area (where the '+' or '-' or ' ' appears), to add those lines to the index. This will make adding or removing line to/from a commit so much quicker and easier than the popup menu.

I'm using git-gui 0.12.0.64 and git version 1.7.0.4.