Re: feature request: git add--interactive --patch on regex-matched hunks only

> I'm not sure how useful "log --hunks" would be. The changes you commit
> don't tend to be that big (well, not if you're doing it right). It seems
> much more likely to have the case you brought up, which is that some
> file has a bunch of boring boilerplate that doesn't need to be
> changed, and you need to pick out the interesting changes from the
> boilerplate changes.
>
> I suppose if somebody committed all of the boilerplate changes (like .po
> comment changes), then you would want to be able to pick them apart. But
> that just seems like the wrong thing (i.e., if those comments really are
> uninteresting, they should not be committed). But I don't work with .po
> files at all, so maybe there is a good reason to commit them.