From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 18:22:50 GMT
Subject: Re: git 1.8.0.rc0.18.gf84667d trouble with "git commit -p file"
Message-ID: <7vvcenqx39.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20121006131200.GB11712@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> 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.