How can I stage lines and hunks?

[demian85]

Hi,

I've been working on a 'git-gui' desktop app. I invite you to take a look: https://github.com/demian85/git-watcher

All the current functionality is provided by native git commands and the git-utils module.

Now, to make it more useful, I would like to implement at least the following features:

Amend commit: I need to show files from previous commit and allow to stage them in a 'sandbox' to avoid modifying the current repository.
Stage by lines and hunks: The same as git-gui.
I've done a bit of research and my conclusion is that there is no way to implement those features without using a native git API.

Can nodegit help me? I couldn't find a clue by looking at the old documentation.

Thanks for your help.

pd: I've asked the same question in the node-gitteh project: libgit2/node-gitteh#71

[demian85]

hello?

[johnhaley81]

I don't know if we can do this yet but I want to try and get it in for 0.2.4 milestone. I'll update this issue if it seems to be not do-able right now.

[johnhaley81]

We're still trying to get this in. @orderedlist have you made any progress on this?

[orderedlist]

Currently working on custom staging. The only process available in libgit2 for this at the moment involves creating a new IndexEntry, writing a blob to the repo with the desired version of the file (not the diff, the full modified file), setting the path and the blob on the indexEntry, and using index.add(entry) to write that item to the index.

Not the prettiest, but at least it's possible. Hopefully I'll be able to add examples soon.

[johnhaley81]

I'm going to remove this from the 0.3.0 release but we'll need some examples for this still.

[richtmat]

are there any news on this issue? I would like to stake hunks as well.

[johnhaley81]

Implemented in #678

[richtmat]

@johnhaley81 sorry, didn't see that. thanks!

[johnhaley81]

No worries. Should have updated the issue as well :)