Per line staging

[non-descriptive]

Currently we can stage things only hunk by hunk or whole file at once. It would be nice to have ability to stage only current line or bunch of selected lines.

Flow would look like something like this:
We focus on diff panel and navigate to a hunk we want to work with.
Select lines we want to stage with arrows and some modifier key (is tui allow that kind of thing?) and press [S]tage button. If there were no selection stage current line.

Inspired by git-cola behavior, but it's a gui app.

[extrawurst]

Hi @non-descriptive thanks for your interest in gitui! I would love to have this feature. I need to checkout options how to make this ergonomic using keyboard only. will checkout how other tools are doing this and come up with a plan!

[dufferzafar]

Lazygit does this via space. You can keep pressing space on changed lines and they'll get staged. (Same for unstage) It's pretty smooth.

[gilescope]

Hmm nice. In tig you can do '/' for break this hunk into two hunks but for some reason there are some hunks it refuses to split. Pressing space would work but being able to split a hunk at an arbitrary line would be great. Worst case you have to split twice to get at a specific line, but best case far less keystrokes (and tig compatibility).

[nbigaouette]

Using git add -p you can split a hunk but there is a limit to this split; this looks similar to what tig does.

I use gitup on macos (gui) and I always select exact lines with the mouse and press enter to stage. There does not seems to be a limit of split in gitup so it's probably a different mechanism behind the scene.

I would love to be able to select exact lines to stage!

[MuAlphaOmegaEpsilon]

This is one of the most important features for me regarding the use of a git client versus using git directly from the command line!

[jason0x43]

In tig you can stage an individual line from the unstaged diff by moving the cursor over it and hitting 1. You can unstage an individual line from the staged diff in the same way.

[nyanpasu64]

Sometimes I find it useful to edit a hunk-diff in a text editor. However, most GUI Git clients don't expose that option, only git add -p from the command line. Additionally it's tedious to replace leading - or + with a single space.

[hasufell]

In tig you can stage an individual line from the unstaged diff by moving the cursor over it and hitting 1. You can unstage an individual line from the staged diff in the same way.

I think 1 is a natural and easy to memorize key for this.

[teras]

I'd vote also for Space instead of "1", since "1" is already a keystroke to change "window".

[tuxlifan]

Any key to stage an individual line would be a huge improvement for me to finally be able to ditch "git gui" and stop mousing around 🥳

For vim users, Shift+v would be a familiar hotkey to start selecting lines.

Thank you for gitui! 😃

[alex-popov-tech]

super excited for this feature, that's probably the only thing which stopps me to switch to gitui from vim-fugitive :)