Add user config to use hunk mode by default when entering staging view #4685
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We used the term "change line" to mean "a line that was added or deleted", but it sounded like a verb in the function name.
If hunk mode is on by default because of the config, then it's annoying for escape to go to line mode.
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This MR contains the following updates: | Package | Update | Change | |---|---|---| | [jesseduffield/lazygit](https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit) | minor | `v0.52.0` -> `v0.53.0` | MR created with the help of [el-capitano/tools/renovate-bot](https://gitlab.com/el-capitano/tools/renovate-bot). **Proposed changes to behavior should be submitted there as MRs.** --- ### Release Notes <details> <summary>jesseduffield/lazygit (jesseduffield/lazygit)</summary> ### [`v0.53.0`](https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/releases/tag/v0.53.0) [Compare Source](jesseduffield/lazygit@v0.52.0...v0.53.0) <!-- Release notes generated using configuration in .github/release.yml at v0.53.0 --> This is the first lazygit release after Jesse [passed the maintainership to me](jesseduffield/lazygit#4655) ([@​stefanhaller](https://github.com/stefanhaller)), and I'm excited (and a little bit nervous 😄) about it. No big new features this time, but lots of smaller quality-of-life improvements. The one that makes the biggest difference for me is an improved hunk selection mode in the staging view (in case you didn't know, you can switch from the normal line selection mode to hunk mode by pressing `a`). This now works a bit more fine-grained, by selecting groups of added or deleted lines rather than entire hunks, which often consist of several such groups. With this change I find that I prefer hunk mode over line mode in most cases, so I added a user config to switch to hunk automatically upon entering the staging view; it is off by default, but I encourage you to enable it (`gui.useHunkModeInStagingView`) to see if you like it as much as I do. Feedback about this is welcome; please comment on [the MR](jesseduffield/lazygit#4684) if you have any. 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- **PR Description** In #4684 we improved the hunk selection behavior to work on blocks of changes instead of actual hunks, and I find this so useful that I wanted to use it by default. In #4685 I added a user config to make hunk selection the default, but I made it an opt-in config because I was worried that users might not find out how to switch back to line selection if needed. To address this concern, in this PR I add a popup that explains this the first time the user enters staging; there is also a breaking changes notice at startup, and we improve the options display at the bottom of the screen to be clearer about this. Hopefully these measures are enough to not confuse people. Closes #4759.
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As of #4684, hunk mode has become so useful that I prefer it over line mode now. This PR adds a config that lets you use hunk mode by default in the staging view.
I'm not enabling this by default yet, although I do think it's the more useful mode for most people. The biggest issue that I still have with this is that if you need to switch to line mode for some reason, then it's very non-obvious how to do that. New users might not find out at all, and think that lazygit doesn't allow staging individual lines.