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Re: [RFC PATCH] git add -p: new "quit" command at the prompt.

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Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date
Apr 13, 2009, 16:38 UTC
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El 12/4/2009, a las 14:45, Matthieu Moy escribió:
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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> You can say 'd' and then ^C, I think.
>
> Yes, you /can/, and that's what I'm doing right now in this situation.
> But that's undocumented, not so intuitive (I found out I could do that
> after trying ^C alone, which doesn't work, staged content is recorded
> on disk at the end of the file only, not after each prompt), ...
>
> I thought the situation was common enough to deserve an explicit
> command. The 'd' command is natural for "git add -i" + patch
> subcommand, but for "git add -p", I found 'd' mostly useless, and I
> really want a "quit" command.
>
> Sure, I can live without it, but if other people would like to have
> it, please speak now ;-).

Yes, I'd like it too. I've been using ^C a lot, but I'd never noticed that changes weren't staged except at the end of each file. Thanks for bringing it up; you might have saved some people (including me) from being bitten by it at some point.

Wincent
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Message 7 of 15 in “git add -p: new "quit" command at the prompt.”
  1. git add -p: new "quit" command at the prompt.Matthieu Moy, Apr 10, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoApr 11, 2009
  3. Matthieu MoyApr 12, 2009
  4. Sverre RabbelierApr 12, 2009
  5. Miles BaderApr 13, 2009
  6. Re: git add -p: new "quit" command at the prompt.Nicolas Sebrecht, Apr 12, 2009
  7. Wincent ColaiutaApr 13, 2009
  8. Matthieu MoyApr 14, 2009
  9. Junio C HamanoApr 15, 2009
  10. Jeff KingApr 16, 2009
  11. Jeff KingApr 16, 2009
  12. Jeff KingApr 16, 2009
  13. Matthieu MoyApr 16, 2009
  14. 1/2 git add -p: new "quit" command at the prompt.Matthieu Moy, Apr 16, 2009
  15. 2/2 Update git-add.txt according to the new possibilities of 'git add -p'.Matthieu Moy, Apr 16, 2009

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