From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:38:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] git add -p: new "quit" command at the prompt.
Message-ID: <80317CFC-6D87-4232-92EB-C5927F262E17@wincent.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqfxgevy58.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

El 12/4/2009, a las 14:45, Matthieu Moy escribió:

> 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