Re: [PATCH 2/4] Teach git-add--interactive to accept a file path to patch

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Nov 22, 2007, 09:57 UTC
Message-ID: <20071122095747.GF7153@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v8x4q7gns.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 01:50:31AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I am moderately negative about "paths imply jump to patch
> subcommand".  An option to git-add--interactive that tells which
> subcommand to initially choose is probably acceptable, though.

I agree that an option is nicer; it's just that it may be awkward since '-i' is itself already an option.

> Would the patch I just sent out (you need to assemble the parts)
> make things easier?

Perhaps. This feature doesn't come up all that often for me, but I will try running with your patch for a while to see if I like it.

-Peff

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