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Re: "git add -p" versus "git add -i", followed by "p"

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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 2, 2018, 17:09 UTC
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On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 6:05 PM Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
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> >   Patch update>> 2
> >              staged     unstaged path
> >   * 1:    unchanged        +1/-0 README.md
> >   * 2:    unchanged        +1/-0 contrib/README
> >     3:    unchanged        +1/-0 t/README
> >   Patch update>>
> >
> > Here I hit enter.  Did you?
>
>   perhaps i'm just not seeing it, but from "man git-add", it doesn't
> seem obvious that you would first select the files to work with, then
> hit a simple CR to get into actual patch mode.

I think it's the same procedure as the "update" step, which describes this in more detail. I agree that the "patch" section does not make this obvious.

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Duy
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