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Comment by u801e

8 years ago

> The built-in porcelain is stupidly inconsistent and confusing.

That's why I end up using the plumbing commands to do things that porcelain commands don't let me do directly. For example, I'll use git diff along with git apply and recountdiff (from the patchutils package) to stage individual hunks or edit hunks prior to staging.

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