From: Gustavo Leite <gustavoleite.ti@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:20:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] add -p: select individual hunk lines
Message-ID: <CAEGv8HiRsS9N2nHBu8uwm+35GS+HRVc6Q0e1R+=-tZn7JcZ8BQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180219113619.26566-1-phillip.wood@talktalk.net>

2018-02-19 8:36 GMT-03:00 Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@talktalk.net>:
>
> "When I end up editing hunks it is almost always because I want to
> stage a subset of the lines in the hunk. Doing this by editing the
> hunk is inconvenient and error prone (especially so if the patch is
> going to be reversed before being applied). Instead offer an option
> for add -p to stage individual lines. When the user presses 'l' the
> hunk is redrawn with labels by the insertions and deletions and they
> are prompted to enter a list of the lines they wish to stage. Ranges
> of lines may be specified using 'a-b' where either 'a' or 'b' may be
> omitted to mean all lines from 'a' to the end of the hunk or all lines
> from 1 upto and including 'b'."

This is an interesting (and needed feature). Would be nice to see it merged.

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Gustavo Leite