Include Or Exclude Remaining Patch Changes

I often use git add --patch as a way of interactively staging changes for a commit. Git walks me through each individual chunk of changes—which it calls hunks—so that I can include it or exclude it.

Sometimes, like when I'm working with a yarn.lock file, there are a ton of computer-generated changes to a file that I don't want to individually confirm. One of the options while interactively staging is to hit a which will stage the current hunk and all later hunks for the current file.

A complementary scenario arises at times when working with a Rails schema.rb file. There are a bunch of Postgres client-specific changes that I don't want to commit. Once I get to the schema.rb file, I can hit d to not stage this or all remaining hunks in the current file.

a - stage this hunk and all later hunks in the file
d - do not stage this hunk or any of the later hunks in the file

This saves me from hitting y a dozen times to accept changes or hitting n a dozen times to decline changes.

See man git-add and look for the Interactive mode section for more details.