From: John Lee <jjl@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 07:34:43 GMT
Subject: Re: Staging commits with visual diff tools?
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1505270831490.4687@alice>
In-Reply-To: <20150527072826.GC6898@peff.net>

On Wed, 27 May 2015, Jeff King wrote:

> If you are interested in looking further, see how the %patch_mode hash
> is defined in git-add--interactive.perl. Specifically, note that "add
> -p" is just one case: diff against the index and apply with "apply
> --cached". But once you have a separate tool for picking hunks, you
> should be able to drop in the different DIFF/APPLY pairs to implement
> "checkout -p", etc.

My plan was to use symlinks, checkout-index, and update-index 
--index-info, similar to how difftool does it.  I verified on the command 
line that that seems to work.


John