How can I commit some changes to a file, but not others, in VSCode?

⚡ Summing up everything in this post with a gif.

1. Make sure you're in the source control view to use this feature
2. Select the range of code
3. Open ··· at the top-right corner of the editor (not the ··· at the top of the git panel on the left)
4. You can also press COMMAND (⌘) + K + COMMAND (⌘) + S to open keyboard shortcuts and search for range and then set a keyboard shortcut for this action.

Peace! ✌️

Update: October 2017: In the latest VSCode as of October 2017 (version 1.18) you can actually stage specific lines really easy just like you would do it with the git CLI git add -p. You just have to click on the edited line from the side like, watch the diff and apply it or not.

initially, I've made an overview of available methods, but I think this bit should be on top since it's the most useful one:

What I've came up with to make it quicker

As one can see, "Git: Stage Selected Ranges" shown by Command Palette (ctrl + shift + P) for the main editor has the same hotkey as in the "review changes" interface, but it doesn't actually work. For some time, I thought this is a bug, but it turned out to be a configurable behavior: click the settings button:

(or just go ctrl + K ctrl + S/file → preferences → keyboard shortcuts and search for @command:git.stageSelectedRanges)

...and you'll see that by default the "When" expression is isInDiffEditor, so it is not supposed to work in the normal editor. So, change When expression to empty:

And either keep the default hotkey combination and use it in the editor (that's what I did) or set it to something shorter (not a double-combination, I'll consider this too). Profit!

If something's unclear or you want to know other options, here's

The initial overview of available methods

• basic method is to Stage Selected Ranges in the interface for reviewing changes:

  

  1. open Source Control (ctrl + shift + G)
  2. select file
  3. select lines that should be staged (or put a cursor for a single line or lines before and after deleted bits)
  4. open the "..." menu and select "Stage Selected Ranges"

• on the other hand, you can use hotkeys. Default ones (in v1.56.2) are ctrl + K and then ctrl + alt + S. To set custom key combination, open Keyboard shortcuts (either from File → Preferences or via ctrl + K then ctrl + S) and find stageSelectedRanges (and may be unstageSelectedRanges, revertSelectedRanges)

• unfortunately, hotkeys mentioned above work only in the "review changes" interface, and you may want to do this in the code editor directly. You can do this via another interface: click the change label:

  

  and then the "stage change" button:

  

• despite there's no direct hotkeys to stage selected range from code editor, you can go ctrl + shift + P (open Command Palette) and then type "stage s" and choose "Git: Stage Selected Ranges":

  

Also, it's handy to use Alt + F5 to jump to the next change in the file when you review what to stage.

• Open up the Source Control view, then click a changed file to open the comparison.

• Select the lines you want to stage.

• Click '...' then Stage Selected Ranges.