Re: Unified workflow for `git add/checkout --patch`?

[Timothy Eccleston <timothy.perisho.eccleston@gmail.com>]

Hi,
I really like both these features:
- git add -p
- git checkout -p

My typical workflow
I like to use them after a long and complex coding sessions where I
want to double-check my work, making edits and adding sets of patches
into sequential commits to keep related changes together topically.

In the process of using git add -p to grab some patches, I may notice
other patches I don't want (especially after I've used the "e" command
in `git add -p` to edit a patch - I usually want to drop the
remaining, unstaged version of the patch right then). But, instead, I
have to go through git add -p and then git checkout -p and likely back
and forth several times, each time skipping through all the same
undecided or postponed patches I am waiting on for later.

Note: I recently discovered the "j" and "J" subcommands which are
useful to postpone decisions on certain patches, but only if I
restrict myself to just git add or git checkout. If I want to do both,
I still have to cycle back through from the top each time. I suppose I
could use stash -p to really hide patches I'm saving for later, but I
still have to exit my workflow and start another command, requiring
multiple passes. OTOH, a unified git add/checkout/stash --patch would
be amazing!

My request
It would be really nice if there were a unified command workflow where
I could add or checkout patches or even partial patches (after editing
a patch in git add), on a case by case basis in a single pass.

Does anyone know a way to do this or do you think it's worth making a
new feature in git to handle it?

Thanks!
Tim