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Manually align diff lines for staging/unstaging parts of a file.

Nathan Duncanson
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August 6, 2018

In SourceTree, when highlighting a changed file in preparation for a commit, there is a diff displayed in a neighboring pane. In that pane I can stage individual hunks or even individual lines.

However, sometimes the diff engine does a poor job of aligning changes between the last commit and the working directory. So if I attempt to stage/unstage specific lines, they may end up in the wrong place.

Is there a way to set a better diff algorithm?

Regardless of the algorithm, is there a way to manually set which lines correspond to each other, so the diff is more accurate - and allows me to safely separate two (or more) changes into separate commits?

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