[PATCH v2 2/3] add -p: allow line selection to be inverted

[Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@talktalk.net>]

From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>

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

Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
---
 Documentation/git-add.txt  |  3 ++-
 git-add--interactive.perl  | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 t/t3701-add-interactive.sh |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
index ad33fda9a2..0e2c11e97b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt
@@ -341,7 +341,8 @@ If you press "l" then the hunk will be reprinted with each insertion
 or 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.
+between them. 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.
diff --git a/git-add--interactive.perl b/git-add--interactive.perl
index a273b41e95..6fa3d0a87c 100755
--- a/git-add--interactive.perl
+++ b/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] = $1;
+		} else {
+			shift @fields;
+			unless (@fields) {
+				error_msg __("no lines to invert\n");
+				return undef;
+			}
+		}
+	}
 	for (@fields) {
 		if (/^([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)$/) {
 			if ($1 eq '' and $2 eq '') {
@@ -1110,6 +1122,9 @@ sub parse_hunk_selection {
 			return undef;
 		}
 	}
+	if ($invert) {
+		@selected = map { !$_ } @selected;
+	}
 	return \@selected;
 }
 
diff --git a/t/t3701-add-interactive.sh b/t/t3701-add-interactive.sh
index 65c8c3354b..89c0e73f2b 100755
--- a/t/t3701-add-interactive.sh
+++ b/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 &&
-- 
2.16.2