As a follow-up to the previous post, let me mention another Git trick. I often stage files in chunks (or even line by line), using Magit’s equivalent of git add --patch. It is not obvious, however, what to do if I want to stage some part of a file which is not yet tracked by Git – if I just git add it, it is staged as a whole.
It turns out, however, that there is a way – this is Git, after all. If you say git add -N some-file, Git stages some-file as an empty file, and you can git add --patch parts of it.
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