Re: Staging Individual Lines

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 21, 2013, 23:52 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s0Mj+inGX24=-RuV+oT5MZB==HZZvu6_5uZrP68qdPoZw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <517466B9.8010607@blueyonder.co.uk>

On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 5:22 PM, ode <ode5002@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I had a big commit I wanted to break up and was wondering if there is
> any way to stage individual lines from the command line.
>
> I am using git add -i but it couldn't split the hunks any smaller.
>
> I went looking on Google and found git-cola gui client which works for
> staging individual lines to the commit.
>
> But it's a bit clumsy to do this with the mouse and I was wondering if
> there is a way to do this without having manually editing the file and
> changing the diff numbers in git add -i when it can't break the hunks
> smaller.
>
> Why must we still manually edit the diff numbers when git-cola seems to
> be able to work out the changes automatically when adding single lines?

There is an 'edit' option. 'git add -p' might be faster.

Cheers.

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Felipe Contreras