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Git's interactive mode has a patch action. This is the shortcut for it:
git add --patch <file>
It will split the file into hunks and interactively ask which one's to add. It has a plethora of options but selecting ? explains them nicely:
<the hunk diff is shown here>
(1/2) Stage this hunk [y,n,q,a,d,j,J,g,/,e,?]? ?
y - stage this hunk
n - do not stage this hunk
q - quit; do not stage this hunk or any of the remaining ones
a - stage this hunk and all later hunks in the file
d - do not stage this hunk or any of the later hunks in the file
j - leave this hunk undecided, see next undecided hunk
J - leave this hunk undecided, see next hunk
g - select a hunk to go to
/ - search for a hunk matching the given regex
e - manually edit the current hunk
? - print help
The free online git book has a good explanation of this too.
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