From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 08:00:09 GMT
Subject: Re: Question about behaviour of git-checkout --patch option
Message-ID: <20200527080009.GB4006373@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20200527075648.GA4006373@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 03:56:48AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

> which does do the right thing. But:
> 
>   - all of this is in the process of being rewritten in C, so it should
>     probably go into add-interactive.c (it's not yet the default to use
>     the C version, but it probably will be soon).

Trying your case with:

  git -c add.interactive.usebuiltin=true checkout -p master .

shows that it does not list the added file at all. I suspect the form of
the fix will be similar, but it may have to plumb through the file
addition from the diff layer, as well.

-Peff