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Using Git Interactive Staging (git add -i)

  • If you have made multiple changes to a file but only want to stage/commit part of that file to git, you can use git's interactive staging tool.
  1. git add -i
  2. Select 5 or p for patch
  3. Select the file(s) with the changes you want to interactively stage.
  4. Git will walk you through different chunks of code in the files you have selected, and you can pick if you want to stage that chunk of code.
  5. Once done, commit your code as normal.
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