patchutils has a command grepdiff that can be use to achieve this. # check that the regex search correctly matches the changes you want. git diff -U0 | grepdiff ‘regex search’ –output-matching=hunk # then apply the changes to the index git diff -U0 | grepdiff ‘regex search’ –output-matching=hunk | git apply –cached –unidiff-zero I use … Read more
All the untracked files does not get impacted when you move in between different branches. As they belong to your filesystem and, GIT is unaware that to which branch these files belong. So when you commit those files, then GIT is aware of which files belong to which branch. And can remove or add files … Read more
Comment from Git source: /* * Read a directory tree. We currently ignore anything but * directories, regular files and symlinks. That’s because git * doesn’t handle them at all yet. Maybe that will change some * day. * * Also, we ignore the name “.git” (even if it is not a directory). * That … Read more
The reason it’s not working is because your hunk is already as small as git will automatically get it. Split only works when there are non-changed lines separating changed lines close enough that git assumes they belong together. In order to achieve what you want, you will need to manually edit the patch
git add –all will add the deleted file too (removing files from index that are no longer in the working tree), while git add . does not. For new files and files already tracked in current working tree: git add . For only files already tracked in current working tree: git add -u For new … Read more
Brief Answer: git add -A is equal to git add . + git add -u Explanation: When you do a “git add .“, it adds all files (existing, modified and new) to the staging area but it does not remove files that have been deleted from the disk. “git add -u” only adds currently tracked … Read more
Your origin repository is ahead of your local repository. You’ll need to pull down changes from the origin repository as follows before you can push. This can be executed between your commit and push. git pull origin development development refers to the branch you want to pull from. If you want to pull from master … Read more
here’s a way: use git diff > patch to make a patch of the current diff. use gawk to make a second patch only of +/- lines matching the pattern: remove – from deleted lines not matching the pattern, delete + lines not matching the pattern, modify the hunk header line numbers, output each modified … Read more
Please try git diff –staged command. Alternative options available are listed below. git diff shows changes between index/staging and working files. Since, in your case, git add moved your files-with-changes to staging area, there were no modifications shown/seen. git diff –staged shows changes between HEAD and index/staging. git diff –cached also does the same thing. … Read more
Have a look at the record extension (which comes bundled with Mercurial). Note that since Mercurial doesn’t have the concept of the staging area like git, running hg record will simply allow you to examine, hunk by hunk, the modifications in your working copy. Any changes you choose to record will be committed, and any … Read more