git-veggie-patch

Usage

Injects a colorful flower bed atop each hunk of a git add -p interactive patch session.

Read my article on Tally Bark.

Setup

Copy from .gitconfig.example to your user's ~/.gitconfig, or run the command:

git config --global interactive.diffFilter diff-filter-garden

Caveats

Git will not call diffFilter unless ui.color is enabled.

Known Issues

There is a regression in Git v2.37 where the interactive patch feature fails on color codes, and you won't see your garden.

(And if you fiddle with the code, you'll see a message from Git, "error: could not parse colored hunk header".)

• This regression was fixed in the following Git version, Git v2.38.

  However, as of 2022-10-25, macOS has not yet updated from Git v2.37.

  To work-around this issue, add the following setting to your .gitconfig. It will disable the new git add -p code, which was freshly rewritten in C, and revert to Git's old implementation:

  [add "interactive"]
  
    useBuiltin = false