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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 plethor...
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#2: Post edited
by
Iizuki
·
2023-10-17T10:28:56Z (7 months ago)
Don't highlight the output of git patch, as it looked silly.
- Git's [interactive mode](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-add#_interactive_mode) has a [patch action](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-add#Documentation/git-add.txt---patch). This is the shortcut for it:
- ```bash
- 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](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Interactive-Staging) has a good explanation of this too.
- Git's [interactive mode](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-add#_interactive_mode) has a [patch action](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-add#Documentation/git-add.txt---patch). This is the shortcut for it:
- ```bash
- 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:
- ```txt
- <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](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Interactive-Staging) has a good explanation of this too.
#1: Initial revision
by
Iizuki
·
2023-10-17T10:19:11Z (7 months ago)
Git's [interactive mode](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-add#_interactive_mode) has a [patch action](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-add#Documentation/git-add.txt---patch). This is the shortcut for it: ```bash 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](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Interactive-Staging) has a good explanation of this too.