From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 22:25:03 GMT
Subject: Re: git 1.8.0.rc0.18.gf84667d trouble with "git commit -p file"
Message-ID: <20121007222502.GA3263@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vehl9q5uk.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 03:23:31PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> >> Yeah, I agree with the reasoning.  This is an unessential feature
> >> that is with the problem for a long time, so let's go the route #1
> >> first before we do anything else.
> >
> > OK. I think Conrad's patch takes us most of the way there. I had a few
> > minor comments, but I think another round should do it. Conrad?
> 
> I'd rather want to see a patch that _only_ documents the current
> behaviour to unconfuse people first.  I definitely do not want any
> patch that changes the command line parsing or any other behaviour
> change with problems that have to take time from reviewers to point
> them out mixed in it.

Sorry, I should have been more clear. I want to see a re-roll of only
the documentation bits of Conrad's patch, for which I had only minor
comments. The code part had major problems. :)

-Peff