From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:31:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-add --interactive (wip)
Message-ID: <200612132131.15081.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v1wn4mk9i.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wednesday 13 December 2006 06:34, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >> > Just as a sidenote: after deciding to not apply hunks, you
> >> > lose them in this WIP, as you will find nothing in "unstaged" mode
> >> > afterwards :-(
> >> 
> >> I do not understand this part.  You can 'revert' to match the
> >> index to HEAD and run 'patch' to pick what you want again.
> >
> > I lost my changes in the working directory; there was nothing to
> > pick again any more.
> 
> That's worrysome.  By design, "git add" should not touch working
> tree at all (only read from there), so if you find cases that
> violates it that should be fixed; please let me know.

I just tried to reproduce the failure with exact the same hunk I used
the first time. I wasn't able to get any wrong result.
So perhaps I did something wrong the first time.

However, if I see something suspect, I will tell you ;-)

Thanks,