Re: [PATCH] add-interactive: shortcut to add hunk and quit

> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:40:03PM -0700, Pete Harlan wrote:
> 
>> 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".
> 
> I agree. There was some discussion in another thread recently of the
> atomicity of git-add (right now it applies the changes to each file
> after all of its hunks are done). I would expect "q" to be "quit and
> apply what I told you so far" and "Q" to be "quit and do not apply
> anything".
> 
>> Perhaps "o" (for "stage exactly [o]ne commit"), or "t" for "stage
>> [t]his commit" would be reasonable alternatives?
> 
> We could also allow multiple commands at once, like "yq" (even in
> single-key mode, this would do the same thing).