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You certainly can stage regions. The author is complaining of a bug - not one I've seen and possibly some sort of interaction with another package he's using. M

• taeric 3y ago
  My try a minute ago made it seem that it will stage every line in the region you make. Subline regions don't come up that often. Or did I try something wrong?
  • omnicognate 3y ago
    Yeah, it works at the line level (as indicated by the way it highlights the selected lines) which I think is a limitation as much of git itself as magit. (I'm not sure what subline staging would even do.) But the author isn't trying to stage a region, let alone a subline one. He's trying to stage a whole hunk and says its only working if point is at the start of the line.
    • taeric 3y ago
      Makes sense. I definitely took the complaint to mean that it only works at the line level. Probably because that was the only way I could see the behavior not working? Subline staging makes sense for some changes. In that, if it does subline indications of what changed, I would expect I could accept one of the changes, but not the others. That said, I agree it is likely a limitation of git, as much as of magit. And, again, I can't imagine this comes up that often.