bug#52349: 29.0.50; vc-git and diff-mode: stage hunks

[Manuel Uberti via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

I don't know if I am missing something, but I don't think staging specific hunks 
from vc-git-mode or diff-mode is possible at the moment.

Is adding such a capability to one (or both) of these modes worth
considering? I know Magit does it, and I remember something similar in a 
git-gutter package. It's probably something diff-hl does as well by now (I have 
not checked).

I feel like it'd be a nice improvement to VC, what do you think?


Thank you

In GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.18, cairo 
version 1.16.0)
  of 2021-12-07 built on hathaway
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Manuel Uberti
www.manueluberti.eu