add -p: allow line selection to be inverted

If the list of lines to be selected begins with '-' select all the
lines except the ones listed.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: phillipwood

Documentation/git-add.txt

@@ -342,7 +342,8 @@ deletion labelled with a number and you will be prompted to enter which
 lines you wish to select. Individual line numbers should be separated by
 a space or comma, to specify a range of lines use a dash between
 them. If the upper bound of a range of lines is omitted it defaults to
-the last line.
+the last line. To invert the selection prefix it with "-" so "-3-5,8"
+will select everything except lines 3, 4, 5 and 8.
 +
 After deciding the fate for all hunks, if there is any hunk
 that was chosen, the index is updated with the selected hunks.

git-add--interactive.perl

@@ -1085,9 +1085,21 @@ sub check_hunk_label {
 sub parse_hunk_selection {
 	local $_;
 	my ($hunk, $line) = @_;
-	my $max_label = $hunk->{MAX_LABEL};
+	my ($max_label, $invert) = ($hunk->{MAX_LABEL}, undef);
 	my @selected = (0) x ($max_label + 1);
 	my @fields = split(/[,\s]+/, $line);
+	if ($fields[0] =~ /^-(.*)/) {
+		$invert = 1;
+		if ($1 ne '') {
+			$fields[0] = $1;
+		} else {
+			shift @fields;
+			unless (@fields) {
+				error_msg __("no lines to invert\n");
+				return undef;
+			}
+		}
+	}
 	for (@fields) {
 		if (my ($lo, $hi) = /^([0-9]+)-([0-9]*)$/) {
 			if ($hi eq '') {
@@ -1107,6 +1119,9 @@ sub parse_hunk_selection {
 			return undef;
 		}
 	}
+	if ($invert) {
+		@selected = map { !$_ } @selected;
+	}
 	return \@selected;
 }
 

t/t3701-add-interactive.sh

@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ test_expect_success 'setup expected diff' '
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'can reset individual lines of patch' '
-	printf "%s\n" l 2 |
+	printf "%s\n" l "-1 3" |
 	EDITOR=: git reset -p 2>error &&
 	test_must_be_empty error &&
 	git diff --cached HEAD >actual &&