From: Pete Harlan <pgit@pcharlan.com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 06:40:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add-interactive: shortcut to add hunk and quit
Message-ID: <4DD369C3.4070806@pcharlan.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110517071232.GA19396@mrq1.org>

On 05/17/2011 12:12 AM, Hermann Gausterer wrote:
> this combines the two "add -i" commands "y"+"q" to one.

...

>         y - stage this hunk
>         n - do not stage this hunk
>         q - quit; do not stage this hunk nor any of the remaining ones
> +       Q - stage this hunk but none of the remaining ones
>         a - stage this hunk and all later hunks in the file
>         d - do not stage this hunk nor any of the later hunks in the file
>         g - select a hunk to go to

If "q" means "quit", I would expect "Q" to mean something like "quit immediately" (perhaps even undoing earlier adds), not "do something that 'q' wouldn't do, and then quit".

Perhaps "o" (for "stage exactly [o]ne commit"), or "t" for "stage [t]his commit" would be reasonable alternatives?

--Pete