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Git add/stage only part of a file's changes

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Say I've made a bunch of changes to a file and would like to split those changes into two or more commits. Normal git add however stages the whole file in one go.

So how to add only some of the changes in a file?

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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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