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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? by smichel17 on Monday July 13, 2020 @12:15PM (#23822390)
What do you do when you come across lines that you want to commit, but edit beforehand? I always run into syntax errors when I use `e` to edit a diff during `git add -p`, and it doesn't update the file in the working tree, which I also want. Skip it and then `commit --amend`?
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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? by account42 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @09:30AM (#23831692)
A tiny change like a typo in a comment I would just edit in both the git commit --patch `e` editor and in the working tree copy. Anything bigger I'd either abort or skip and edit/test normally and then amend. My main use for `e` are not really edits to the final code but rather for splitting up changes that affect the same line.

I only had problems with errors from `e` on Windows - I'm guessing due to wrong line endings.

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