From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:42:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-add.txt: Explain --patch option in layman terms
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In-Reply-To: <87y6p08lz5.fsf@jondo.cante.net>

Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:

>     --patch:
>     -p::
>         In a modified work tree, choose interactively which patch hunks to
>         add. This gives a change to review the difference between the
>         index and the work before adding modified contents to the index.

Sounds sensible.  You may want to be even more direct and succinct, e.g.

    Interactively choose hunks of patch between the index and the work
    tree and add them to the index.