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VS Code has amazing git support.  One of the features I really love is the ability to commit partial file updates.

**Why would you want to do that?**

Say you are working on a project, you end up coding one thing but then start working on another feature without committing the previous changes.  Let's say you added a function, and only want to commit that function and ignore other changes.  VS Code has you covered!

Let's start with a simple piece of code.

https://i.imgur.com/BqQYMBg.png

This code is all committed, let's go ahead and make a few changes.

https://i.imgur.com/uDbyQOz.png

This is really simple and rather dumb code, but let's pretend it isn't.

I first created the get_webpage() function to wrap the requests call.  I later added the print_web_response() function just so we can have a second simple function.

I want to go ahead and commit just the changes that involve get_webpage() and then do a separate commit for the print_web_response() code.

First you want to "Open Changes"

https://i.imgur.com/NzpBqLW.png

https://i.imgur.com/QF57xZt.png

From there you have a really useful visual diff view of your code.   Select the lines you want to commit and right click and select **Stage Selected Ranges**

https://i.imgur.com/nOjp17D.png

You should see the diff update reflecting the changes to what is new.

https://i.imgur.com/3odcbqX.png

Let's do a **git status** to see what is staged.

https://i.imgur.com/NiMBwH2.png

Here you can see app.py is staged, but wait it is also unstaged?

The reason for this is because only a few lines are staged, a rather advanced but useful git feature.  Let's commit!

![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/themarkymark/scvB12h5-image.png)

https://i.imgur.com/9cdyHQE.png

An updated git status shows there are still changes that need to be staged and commited.

This is a useful feature that VS Code makes super easy to work with.  Keep it in mind when you forget to stage some code without staging the entire file.

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