Re: Alternative to manual editing with git add --patch

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Oct 14, 2015, 16:30 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqeggx9zul.fsf@grenoble-inp.fr>
In-Reply-To: <561E6FBB.7060302@gmx.de>

Sven Helmberger <sven.helmberger@gmx.de> writes:

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> Hello,
>
> I hope this hasn't been discussed before.
>
> I'm a big fan of cleanliness in commits and therefore often use git add
> --patch to sort code changes I made into the right commits etc.
>
> What I then often encountered was the situation where I happened to have
> inserted consecutive lines of code that conceptually belong to different
> commits. Normally I can nicely split patches, but not in this case,
> making manually editing the patch the only alternative.
>
> Shouldn't there be at least a way to quickly say line-by-line if you
> want to have it added or not?

Many GUI or text-editor plugins for Git allow you to just select lines and stage the selection. Even though I love "git add -p", I find magit (Git integration for Emacs) more convenient when it comes to staging individual lines.

That said, a "split hunk line by line" option for "git add -p" could be nice.

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Matthieu Moy
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