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You can stage individual chunks of a file.
Useful if you have a large set of changes you want to make separate commits for. I also just find that it’s a good way to do a review of each chunk before committing changes blindly.
Give it a shot some time, worst case is you stage some stuff that you don’t want to commit, but it’s non-destructive.
I'll occasionally
It's clunky but it's robust and safe. It does sound a lot cleaner to just use
commit -p
thoughYeah, -p can help with that. I’m not much for “commit grooming” - as long as a branch merges to main cleanly and passes tests, I don’t care about an “ugly” commit history.