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You can commit line by line within Github Desktop and its a much nicer experience IMO than doing so via CLI. Its much easier to jump around to different files and commit related line changes in a bigger PR than jumping in and out of the patch command.

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  git gui

which you probably already have if you use Linux also has this functionality.

It does, but github desktop is way better looking and has deeper integration into github prs, status checks, etc.

It's been a while since I've tolerated the git gui interface, but when I used to use it, the line-to-chunk logic would regularly fail on short 2-3 line spans.

There's a stackoverflow discussion [1] that suggests it was fixed in 2018, but for many years it was a terrible experience that pushed me to use other frontends just for reliable partial staging.

1: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58133092/git-gui-error-f...

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