Re: Stage or discard a hunk at a time?

> On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 01:09:03PM -0600, Cameron Steffen wrote:
>
> > I have this feature idea for git. There should be a command that
> > effectively combines git add -p and git checkout -p so that I can
> > navigate changed hunks and either stage or discard them.
> >
> > There is already a SO question asking about this exactly...
> > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11538650/simultaneously-git-add-p-and-git-checkout-p
> >
> > Has this been discussed before? Is this a reasonable request? If so, I
> > might look into contributing the change myself.
>
> This is something I've sometimes wanted, too. I don't think it would be
> _too_ hard to do by modifying the add-interactive code. Both of those
> operations are driven by the same code; see the %patch_modes hash in
> git-add--interactive.perl, which defines the various situations. You
> would need to modify the actual code to handle the tri-state (there is
> not just "yes, apply it" and "no, leave it alone", but now "apply /
> discard / skip"). But it seems do-able.
>
> If you do plan to work on it, be aware that the perl bits of
> add--interactive are being re-written in C. So it might make sense to
> target the new C implementation instead of modifying the perl.