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the thing i really wish existed was git add -p mode that automatically segmented unstaged changes into a series of fixups based on the blame of the surrounding area that changed. this wouldn't work in all cases, but in many cases, i've made a series of 3-4 clearly-separable changes, i then go and make fixes on top of all of them, and now i want to fixup each change.
It often did the wrong thing IME, but YMMV.
Question: why not send this to the Git mailing list, and hopefully get this in upstream?
I don’t think the Git maintainers will consider adding Go as a dependency and having commands in a new language. Or at least, it would require first a massive effort to align the maintainers on the idea of a new language, like Rust in the Linux kernel
I've used `tig` for this sort of thing for well over a decade. `tig status` lets you see all files, interactively add things, whatever.
My 2c: I'd like to see git add interactive go through the hunks in order of most recent first!
I like the idea of 'G' to filter hunks. The perl script does not exist since git v2.40.0 so I don't think the installation instructions work for recent versions of git as there is no way to stop 'git add -p' from running the builtin version. I see this is MIT licenced but the code is very closely based on the perl script which is licensed under the GPLv2.
huh. I guess this is a prototype for features that will have be submitted to the upstream version. There was a feature in development for something like `git add -G `, maybe a decade ago, that never got completed. As for licensing, I'm happy to change the license. I have no strong feelings on the subject, and don't know what restrictions GPLv2 imposes on a port to another language.