Re: [PATCH 2/4] Teach git-add--interactive to accept a file path to patch

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 21, 2007, 20:40 UTC
Message-ID: <7vejejfi28.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071121152118.GG24108@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> ...
> On top of that, it would be great to be able to do something like
>
>   git-add -i *.c
>
> and just get prompted for changed files (right now, you only get
> prompted for changed files, but unchanged files seem to print a spurious
> newline).
>
> And at any rate, this would require fixing 3/4 to handle the multiple
> files from git-add.
>
> What do you think?

If we are to add path limited behaviour, I think it should also grok "git-add -i sub/dir/". IOW, you would want to have the same path selection semantics as git-add without the "interactive" bit.

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