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Re: Proposed git mv behavioral change

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Oct 20, 2007, 11:06 UTC
Message-ID
<20071020110614.GA19023@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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<B6FFD723-83FF-459B-AD00-89DD2A3113DB@wincent.com>
On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 01:02:32PM +0200, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
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> Whoops. I think I just inadvertently proposed a feature... my most common 
> use of "git-add --interactive" is when I want to stage only specific hunks 
> of a particular file, and so instead of typing "git add bar" I want to type 
> "git add -i bar" and have it jump straight to the "patch" subcommand (5) for 
> that file. Would anyone else find this useful?

Yes, my only use of git-add --interactive is to stage particular patches from individual files. So I would find that feature useful.

-Peff
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Message 4 of 4 in “Re: Proposed git mv behavioral change”
  1. Ari EntlichOct 20, 2007
  2. Jeff KingOct 20, 2007
  3. Wincent ColaiutaOct 20, 2007
  4. Jeff KingOct 20, 2007

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