Re: Unable to use --patch with git add

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Oct 11, 2017, 18:00 UTC
Message-ID: <20171011180015.mqn5xkj5z4yjdrhm@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAEBs8jKAsb3B-6WJ=ptL2AsGvDRFVPYLCsztpdTN6KCBLOo1XA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 11:25:52PM +0530, Ayush Goel wrote:

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> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 11:19 PM, Santiago Torres <santiago@nyu.edu> wrote:
> > It'd be helpful to know:
> >
> > - What did you do?
> 
> I have recently updated to git version 2.14.2. The problem started
> happening after that.
> Made changes to a file. Tried `git add -p`.

This is a known issue in v2.14.2 with having "color.ui" set to "always" in your config.

There's a fix in v2.15.0-rc1. You can either upgrade to that, or as a workaround set "color.ui" to "auto" (or remove it completely from your config, as "auto" is the default).

-Peff