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From: Jonathan del Strother <maillist@steelskies.com>
To: Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: staging specific lines out of a hunk for a commit
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:09:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimOPSbG=VqqReMqbQicYygxbHQsniwS5WDvA1z4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin4U78N_8LV8fCWuinNH9AFeOsRBjnvHM0qt2ZH@mail.gmail.com>

On 21 September 2010 11:40, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know 'git gui' has this cool feature where you can stage one line at
> a time. This is really handy, but also very annoying, if you have a
> large piece of code you want to commit.
>
> eg: I have a single hunk, which can't be split into smaller hunks
> because it is all new code. But that hunk fixes a few bugs, or
> introduces a few new features.
>
> Is there a way to use 'git add -i' or 'git add -p' or 'git gui' and
> tell it to add for example lines 5-20 of the hunk to the index?
> Currently with 'git gui', I have to right click and select 'Stage line
> for commit' 15+ times! :-(
>

If you happen to be on a Mac, gitx allows you to select the lines
you're interested in with the mouse and stage them.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-21 12:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-21 10:40 staging specific lines out of a hunk for a commit Graeme Geldenhuys
2010-09-21 10:52 ` Bert Wesarg
2010-09-21 11:00   ` Graeme Geldenhuys
2010-09-21 11:31     ` Matthieu Moy
2010-09-21 11:44       ` Graeme Geldenhuys
2010-09-21 11:09 ` Jonathan del Strother [this message]

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