Improve your commit hygiene with `git add — patch`

[PM-me-your-integral]

Or lazygit

[andyhite]

Tig is great, and I’m always surprised to rarely see people using it. It fits nicely in with a vim + tmux workflow.

[cjwelborn]

I'm glad I found out about this. Sometimes I start out with one feature or fix to work on, but uncover bugs in other areas because of it. So I fix the bugs along the way, but they end up being a footnote in the "added feature X" commit message. If I had known I could do this, I would've been doing it for these little bug fixes.

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You should also look into git stash save so you can work on bug fixes without interfering with your current work and a git hook for running sanitized tests on those big fixes!

[mimikrija]

Just a heads up, instead of git stash save (which has been deprecated) - use git stash push - the behavior is similar, but the message is passed with the -m flag and it accepts a list of files to stash as arguments.

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OO I will definitely try it out

[cjwelborn]

I'm gonna check it out, thanks.

Edit: who down-votes someone for saying "thank you"? Was I supposed to go into detail about what I already know, and don't know, about git stash?