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What Git clients do you use? (feddit.nl)
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I'm wondering if you use any (graphical) clients to manage your Git, and if so, what client you use.

I myself have to use git professionally across all 3 major OS-es, and I currently use Sourcetree on Windows and macOS, and the Git tools built-in into IntelliJ on Linux.

Have given MaGit a try, but just couldn't get all the shortcuts to stick in my mind.

Interested to hear your experiences!

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[–] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

The only thing I'm missing in the CLI is easy picking and choosing which change to include in a commit on a more fine grained basis than files. I sometimes have a changed file and the changes fix different issues and thus should get separate commits but with the CLI I can't easily select the changes to be staged. At least not AFAIK.

Edit: Richards law of posting something wrong to get fast correct answers seems to stay true, even on lemmy. Thanks for teaching me something today <3

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    You can via git add -i foo.bar

    I believe the only issue with that is that it can only go by hunks. If your changes are sufficiently far away, you can select them separately. But if you change one function that should be in patch a, and another function 5 lines down that should be in patch b, I think you're screwed

    That being said, this is all from memory, so don't quote me on it

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I usually use git add -p to selectively stage hunks. But in git add -i I think running the patch command does the same thing to get into patch mode.

    If patch mode shows you a hunk, and you only want some of the lines you can press s to split into smaller hunks. Then you'll be prompted whether to add each smaller hunk separately.

    If you want to stage a change that is on the same line as a change you don't want to stage, or on an adjacent line, then you need to use e to edit the hunk. Git stages whatever changes are left when you're done editing. The file in the working tree on disk is unchanged.

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