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Re: Small issue with "add untracked" option of 'git add -i'

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Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>
Date
Jun 21, 2017, 04:52 UTC
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On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 08:25:26AM +0530, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:
> 
> I tried applying the patch and building it locally. For some reason I
> couldn't see the change in effect. What could I be missing?
>

Did you make sure you used the git you built, and also the relevant subcommands?

What does `which git` and git --exec-path return?

If you did not install git, but try to run it in the compiled dir, you can better run bin-wrappers/git, which will make sure the correct sub commands are run.

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