Git Interactive Add

"Help! I've done a bunch of work without committing, but I want my commit history to stay clean!"

An interactive add is the CLI equivalent of a GUI git client like GitKraken.

To begin an interactive add:

git add -i

From there the steps look something like the following:

Given the changed files

1 package.json
2 index.html
3 styles.css

Patch the addition with p (for patch) Then add in either individual files like 1,3 or a range of files like 1-3 (would select 1, 2, 3).

This will review each selected file individually, then go through each hunk and either stage with y, stage the remaining hunks with a (for all), or skip it with n.