I find the jetbrains IDEs (like Webstorm) has the best UI interface for this. Selectively commit specific lines from your changes.
For VSCode-based editors I am a happy user of the "Stage selected ranges" command
Using Git add -p for fun (and profit)
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Re: Using Git add -p for fun (and profit)
#22Re: Using Git add -p for fun (and profit)
#23I love Zed editor's git UI for this. If you click on the left gutter of a hunk, it opens a little interface in the top right corner that lets you either Stage or Restore that hunk.
Re: Using Git add -p for fun (and profit)
#24A disadvantage of git add -p is that it allows you to create a commit that never existed on the development system, and, hence, cannot have been tested.
How do people handle that? One way would be to follow it up with git stash, running tests, and, if necessary, git amend, but that can get cumbersome soon.
Re: Using Git add -p for fun (and profit)
#25If you liked this, you're going to love
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#26I strictly use git add -p.
for one, it lets me create small patches of related stuff. There's nothing wrong with major patchsets in general but it makes it harder to cherry-pick little fixes to old stable branches for example
two, I notice other developers making me do the work for them because crap sneaks into their commits, like debugging statements or accidentally removed hunks. Instead I have to do "git add -p" when reviewing their commit.
Essentially, it's a first pass staging area you can review what you did. beautiful.
Re: Using Git add -p for fun (and profit)
#27Is there any tool that allows you to pass the line numbers that you want to stage as arguments to the command, instead of having to do it interactively?
Re: Using Git add -p for fun (and profit)
#28Re: Using Git add -p for fun (and profit)
#29A disadvantage of git add -p is that it allows you to create a commit that never existed on the development system, and, hence, cannot have been tested. How do people handle that? One way would be to follow it up with git stash , running tests, and, if necessary, git amend , but that can get cumbersome soon.
That’s what CI is for.
Re: Using Git add -p for fun (and profit)
#30I've been using this UI git diff add script for years: https://github.com/ismell/diffadd
I think it works better then the TUI. Surprised something like it hasn't landed in upstream git.