Re: Unable to use --patch with git add

From: Ayush Goel <ayushgoel111@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 11, 2017, 17:55 UTC
Message-ID: <CAEBs8jKAsb3B-6WJ=ptL2AsGvDRFVPYLCsztpdTN6KCBLOo1XA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20171011174952.almye3qa2tmyrmol@LykOS.localdomain>

Hello Santiago,

Thank you for picking this up.

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 11:19 PM, Santiago Torres <santiago@nyu.edu> wrote:

> It'd be helpful to know:
>
> - What did you do?

I have recently updated to git version 2.14.2. The problem started happening after that. Made changes to a file. Tried `git add -p`.

> - What did you expect to happen?

Enter the patch add mode of git.

> - What happened instead?

Usual git patch mode is that it shows a patch and expects user to add/skip/split etc. Instead it never stops to take input from me.

See this ->

git add -p

diff --git a/Tests/OSXTests/TDTStreamingTests.m
b/Tests/OSXTests/TDTStreamingTests.m
index 35757bc..525fe56 100644
--- a/Tests/OSXTests/TDTStreamingTests.m
+++ b/Tests/OSXTests/TDTStreamingTests.m
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ static NSTask *compressionServerTask;
 }

 - (void)breathe {
-  NSDate *date = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:0.1];
+  NSDate *date = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:0.01];
   [[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] runUntilDate:date];
 }

#### Expecting git input mode to stop the process here #####
#### Instead git exits without any error #####

>
> I suspect you are using --patch with a new file, so you probably need to first
> add it with -N or so. This is just a shot in the dark though...
>

Not adding new file.

> Thanks,
> -Santiago.
>
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 11:16:39PM +0530, Ayush Goel wrote:
>> $ git --version
>> git version 2.14.2
>>
>> What more details can I provide to help debug this?
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Ayush Goel

-- 
Regards,
Ayush Goel