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# Clean Out Working Copy With Patched Restore
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I sometimes let the working copy of my projects get a little messy. The working
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copy is all the changes I've made to tracked files that haven't been staged or
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commited.
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After working for a bit, especially on something more exploratory, I end up
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with comments, log statements, and debugging calls scattered across a bunch of
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files.
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If these exploratory changes are mixed in with a bunch of actual changes, it
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can create a lot noise. I can clean up that noise by restoring the files. I can
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be surgical about it with the `--patch` flag.
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```bash
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$ git restore --patch
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```
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This will prompt me for each changeset.
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- `y` -- yes, restore that change
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- `n` -- no, leave it there
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- `q` -- bail out of the restore
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There are other _patch_ options, but these are the ones I use the most. To see
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what the rest of the options are, go to `man git-add` and find `patch` in the
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`INTERACTIVE MODE` section.
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