Recommended approach to refreshing only part of a file?

[Leigh McCulloch]

Hi folks,

What's the recommended approach or workflow for refreshing only part of a file. For example, if I'm working on a patch and have made some changes to a file that I want to keep but not include in this patch, how do I refresh into the patch only the changes I desire.

I'm looking for the analogous action as doing git commit --patch that allows me to interactively choose which parts of the diff to commit.

I'm relatively new to stacked-git. I've looked for the answer to this in the tools help and in the manual.

Thanks!

Leigh

[Peter Grayson]

Hi Leigh,

This is a good question.

You can use git add --patch to interactively choose which hunks to stage to the index. You can then use stg refresh --index to refresh the current patch with just those staged hunks.

Cheers,

Pete

[Topher Brown]

Here's a screencast of the workflow Pete is describing: https://asciinema.org/a/423974

I even have an alias to make this easier:

```

alias srpa='git add --patch && stg refresh --index'

```

Highly recommend -- I use this all the time!