Since you’ve got the diff open in your favorite text editor (you did configure Git to use your favorite text editor, right?), you can do whatever you want - as long as you make sure the resulting diff applies cleanly.Īnd therein lies the trick. Anything else, and you’ll get errors (there’s no character for a changed line, since those are handled by removing the old line, and adding the changed one as new). The character can either be a space (indicates an unchanged line), a - indicating that the line was removed, or a + indicating that the line was added. The most important thing to keep in mind: The diff is always indented with one character in addition to whatever other indentation is there. Manually editing the hunk is immensely powerful, but also a bit complicated if you’ve never done it before. As promised, it will open the hunk in a text editor and you can edit it to your hearts content
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This is probably the most powerful option. This only works if there’s unchanged lines between the changes in the displayed hunk, so this wouldn’t have any effect in the example above s - Split the hunk into smaller hunks.Useful if you’ve already added what you want to, and want to skip over the rest d - No, don’t add this hunk and all other remaining hunks.Pressing ? will give you a short explanation for each one, but the ones I use most often are:
GIT COMMIT NEW FILES CODE
+ $stderr.puts "Couldn't attach function #"Īt the top is some diff info about the current position in the file, followed by the actual diff of the source code (called “hunk”), and below that are your available options. When you pass this option to add, instead of immediately adding all the changes in the file to the index, it goes through each change and asks you what you want to do, and looks like this: -24,7 +32,12 module CoreMIDI I use this option so often that I’ve added a git alias for easy access: git config alias.ap "add -patch". Normally, calling git add will add all the changes in that file to the index, but add supports an interesting option: -patch, or -p for short.
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With Git, on the other hand, you first add all the changes you want to be in the next commit to the index via git add (or remove a file with git rm). Note: Depending on your version of git, your output might differ slightly. In other systems whenever you make a commit, all the changes you made in your working copy are committed.
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The index is the place where you prepare your next commit. One of the things that is pretty much unique to Git is the index (also known as the cache or staging area).