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Show HN: Git-hunk – Stage hunks by hash, no "-p" required

https://git-hunk.paulie.app/

git add -p is the only built-in way to stage individual hunks, and it's interactive — you step through hunks one at a time answering "y/n/q/a/d/e/?". That works fine for humans at a keyboard, but it's completely unusable for LLM agents, shell scripts, and CI pipelines.git-hunk is the non-interactive alternative. It gives every hunk a stable SHA-1 content hash, then lets you stage by hash:$ git...

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Notorious has at least two similar meanings; the more common one is "known unfavourably", the second meaning is a neutral "known", not positive or negative. Most people only see the word used in the negative light so shy from it in the neutral use case to avoid being ambiguous or assumed negativity.

Using it with an adjective to clarify the meaning here is fine.