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Sometimes the hunks offered to you when you run git add --patch include unrelated changes mixed up with each other because the lines are physically close to each other in the file.

Is there a way to interactively add changes to the staging area on a line-by-line basis?

Gus Hogg-Blake
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  • `git add -p` lets you drill down to individual changes, but if you have adjacent lines with unrelated changes, it won't split them. Maybe look at the Darcs porcelain? I liked how Darcs does these things but have not actually explored this option myself. – tripleee Apr 20 '14 at 16:17

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You can type e (for 'edit') when you are adding a specific patch with mixed content (too mixed for s or 'split' to work).

That allows you to delete the lines you don't want to add.

Then you can test what you have added with a git stash --keep-index, in order to see if that is working.

VonC
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