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Austin Vance for Focused

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TIL: the Git -p flag!

Today I learned about the -p flag in git and now I want to use it everywhere!

According to the man page:

$ man git-add

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-p, --patch
Use the interactive patch selection interface to chose which changes to commit. See git-add(1) for details
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You can use the -p flag with checkout, add, commit

Git Patch!!!!!

How cool

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Andrei Gatej

There is also git add -i, very useful most of the times!

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Austin Vance

Want to try a #bloggolf blog post on it?? We will give all the 🦄

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Andrei Gatej

I don't think I can provide much value through an article, considering all the other resources that are out there. Also, what is a #bloggolf blog post ?