It's not the only sane way, it's just what IDE zealots say... even though you don't even need an IDE to do it the "IDE way". There are plugins to highlight and

It's not the only sane way, it's just what IDE zealots say... even though you don't even need an IDE to do it the "IDE way". There are plugins to highlight and stage diffs in most text editors. Regardless I also really like `git add -p`. I don't use it often but it really makes me focus on and consider each hunk. It was the defacto way to do it at an old company I worked at and no, it was not a small startup "hipster" company, we built enterprise ERP software.