From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:17:18 GMT
Subject: Re: git add -p and unresolved conflicts
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Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> writes:

> So, the options are:
>  1) Keep the current behavior
>  2) Abort with an error immediately if one of the picked paths are in
> a conflicted state
>  3) Abort with an error when first encounter a path that is in a
> conflicted state
>  4) Warn and skip any paths that are in a conflicted state
>  5) Implement "git add -p" for conflicted files (if we can agree on a behavior)
>
> 1) and 3) makes little sense to me.

I do not think 1, 2, or 3 makes any sense to me if you are proposing to
change anything.  Why did you even bother to list them?

Given that you wrote "(if we can...)" for #5, in the short term, #4 is the
only sensible thing to do, I would think.