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Re: git 1.8.0.rc0.18.gf84667d trouble with "git commit -p file"

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 6, 2012, 18:22 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> Another option is to leave it with "-i" semantics in the meantime, which
> are at least easy to explain: it is simply a shorthand for running "git
> add -p && git commit". That may be inconsistent with other aspects of
> commit, but people have (apparently) been happy with it, and there has
> not been a rash of complaints.

Yeah, that would be the safest and possibly the sanest way forward. Did the documentation update patch by Conrad on the other subthread look sane to you? I haven't read it very carefully yet.

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