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I think 'git reset -p' lets you unstage a selection, and I'd use '/' in both searching for the chunk to unstage and to continue where I left off.

• masklinn 5y ago
  > I think 'git reset -p' lets you unstage a selection That requires finishing the current staging, moving to unstaging, processing the unstaging (also a linear hunk-wise process), restarting the ataging, and remembering to skip the stuff you’d mistakenly staged. The workflow of magit is much easier here, and the staging / unstaging integrates very well with reviewing the local or staged diff. Crafting good commits has way less friction and error recovery is much better.
  • TeMPOraL 5y ago
    Importantly, and this is why Emacs users tend to love Magit, the workflow integrates well with rest of Emacs. Your staging and diff buffers are just that - Emacs buffers. Meaning all your quality-of-life configurations and extensions are available as well. For example, the fact that you can just jump around the buffer and stage/unstage things as you go, means you're free to use whatever you most like for that "jumping around" part. Incremental search? Sure. Ace-jump? Yes. M-x occur? If you must. Magit on a bare-bones Emacs is extremely ergonomic on its own, but if you use and adapt Emacs for yourself, all the improvements compound on each other.