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Re: Staging commits with visual diff tools?

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JLJohn Lee <jjl@pobox.com>
Date
May 31, 2015, 09:36 UTC
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On Sat, 30 May 2015, David Aguilar wrote:
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> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 09:50:49PM +0100, John Lee wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Does anybody have code to stage commits using a the visual
>> diff/merge tools supported by git-difftool?  Is there support in git
...
> I'm a g/vim user, so git-cola is finely tuned for keyboard
> usage.  If we implement these feature in Git, we should consider
> providing the same workflows/hotkeys as cola.

Just to be clear I'm not planning on contributing my script back to git, it will just be a standalone script in a separate repo.

I'll give git-cola a try, thanks. I just ran it and see it supports e.g. right click to stage and launching difftools -- does it also support launching a difftool to edit the index?

John
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Message 6 of 10 in “Staging commits with visual diff tools?”
  1. John LeeMay 26, 2015
  2. Jeff KingMay 27, 2015
  3. John LeeMay 27, 2015
  4. Michael J GruberMay 29, 2015
  5. David AguilarMay 31, 2015
  6. John LeeMay 31, 2015
  7. David AguilarJun 1, 2015
  8. John LeeJun 1, 2015
  9. John LeeJun 27, 2015
  10. John LeeJun 28, 2015

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