From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 18:30:26 GMT
Subject: Re: git 1.8.0.rc0.18.gf84667d trouble with "git commit -p file"
Message-ID: <20121006183026.GA3644@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vvcenqx39.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 11:22:50AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > Another option is to leave it with "-i" semantics in the meantime, which
> > are at least easy to explain: it is simply a shorthand for running "git
> > add -p && git commit". That may be inconsistent with other aspects of
> > commit, but people have (apparently) been happy with it, and there has
> > not been a rash of complaints.
> 
> Yeah, that would be the safest and possibly the sanest way forward.
> Did the documentation update patch by Conrad on the other subthread
> look sane to you?  I haven't read it very carefully yet.

I didn't notice any documentation patch, and I can't find one looking
through the archive. Do you have a link?

-Peff