Remove the hint about hunk selection being the default

The hint was raised on entering the staging panel, once, to explain that
the selection mode there had changed and how to get the old one back. That
panel is gone, and with it the moment the hint was tied to; what is left is
a string nothing prints and a flag nothing reads.

The advice it carried is not lost: the option it names is documented, and
the key that switches modes is on screen while a diff is focused.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

pkg/app/entry_point.go

@@ -152,9 +152,6 @@ func Start(buildInfo *BuildInfo, integrationTest integrationTypes.IntegrationTes
 
 	if integrationTest != nil {
 		integrationTest.SetupConfig(appConfig)
-		// Set this to true so that integration tests don't have to explicitly deal with the hunk
-		// staging hint:
-		appConfig.GetAppState().DidShowHunkStagingHint = true
 
 		// Preserve the changes that the test setup just made to the config, so
 		// they don't get lost when we reload the config while running the test

pkg/config/app_config.go

@@ -898,11 +898,10 @@ func (c *AppConfig) SaveGlobalUserConfig() {
 // AppState stores data between runs of the app like when the last update check
 // was performed and which other repos have been checked out
 type AppState struct {
-	LastUpdateCheck        int64
-	RecentRepos            []string
-	StartupPopupVersion    int
-	DidShowHunkStagingHint bool
-	LastVersion            string // this is the last version the user was using, for the purpose of showing release notes
+	LastUpdateCheck     int64
+	RecentRepos         []string
+	StartupPopupVersion int
+	LastVersion         string // this is the last version the user was using, for the purpose of showing release notes
 
 	// these are for shell commands typed in directly, not for custom commands in the lazygit config.
 	// For backwards compatibility we keep the old name in yaml files.

pkg/gui/controllers/commits_files_controller.go

@@ -587,7 +587,6 @@ func (self *CommitFilesController) enterCommitFile(node *filetree.CommitFileNode
 			}
 
 			self.c.Context().Push(self.c.Contexts().CustomPatchBuilder, opts)
-			self.c.Helpers().PatchBuilding.ShowHunkStagingHint()
 
 			return nil
 		},

pkg/gui/controllers/files_controller.go

@@ -741,7 +741,6 @@ func (self *FilesController) EnterFile(opts types.OnFocusOpts) error {
 
 	context := lo.Ternary(opts.ClickedWindowName == "secondary", self.c.Contexts().StagingSecondary, self.c.Contexts().Staging)
 	self.c.Context().Push(context, opts)
-	self.c.Helpers().PatchBuilding.ShowHunkStagingHint()
 
 	return nil
 }

pkg/gui/controllers/helpers/patch_building_helper.go

@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 package helpers
 
 import (
-	"fmt"
-
 	"github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/pkg/commands/git_commands"
 
 	"github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/pkg/commands/patch"
@@ -22,18 +20,6 @@ func NewPatchBuildingHelper(
 	}
 }
 
-func (self *PatchBuildingHelper) ShowHunkStagingHint() {
-	if !self.c.AppState.DidShowHunkStagingHint && self.c.UserConfig().Gui.UseHunkModeInStagingView {
-		self.c.AppState.DidShowHunkStagingHint = true
-		self.c.SaveAppStateAndLogError()
-
-		message := fmt.Sprintf(self.c.Tr.HunkStagingHint, self.c.UserConfig().Keybinding.Main.ToggleSelectHunk)
-		self.c.Confirm(types.ConfirmOpts{
-			Prompt: message,
-		})
-	}
-}
-
 // takes us from the patch building panel back to the commit files panel
 func (self *PatchBuildingHelper) Escape() {
 	self.c.Context().Pop()

pkg/i18n/english.go

@@ -313,7 +313,6 @@ type TranslationSet struct {
 	NothingToSelectInDiff                 string
 	SelectLineByLine                      string
 	ToggleSelectHunkTooltip               string
-	HunkStagingHint                       string
 	ToggleSelectionForPatch               string
 	RemoveSelectionFromPatch              string
 	RemoveSelectionFromPatchTooltip       string
@@ -1186,15 +1185,6 @@ const englishNonReloadableConfigWarning = `The following config settings were ch
 
 {{configs}}`
 
-const englishHunkStagingHint = `Hunk selection mode is now the default for staging. If you want to stage individual lines, press '%s' to switch to line-by-line mode.
-
-If you prefer to use line-by-line mode by default (like in earlier lazygit versions), add
-
-gui:
-  useHunkModeInStagingView: false
-
-to your lazygit config.`
-
 // exporting this so we can use it in tests
 func EnglishTranslationSet() *TranslationSet {
 	return &TranslationSet{
@@ -1503,7 +1493,6 @@ func EnglishTranslationSet() *TranslationSet {
 		SelectHunk:                           "Select hunks",
 		SelectLineByLine:                     "Select line-by-line",
 		ToggleSelectHunkTooltip:              "Toggle line-by-line vs. hunk selection mode.",
-		HunkStagingHint:                      englishHunkStagingHint,
 		ToggleSelectionForPatch:              `Toggle lines in patch`,
 		RemoveSelectionFromPatch:             `Remove lines from commit`,
 		RemoveSelectionFromPatchTooltip:      "Remove the selected lines from this commit. This runs an interactive rebase in the background, so you may get a merge conflict if a later commit also changes these lines.",