Re: Unable to use --patch with git add

From: Ayush Goel <ayushgoel111@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 11, 2017, 18:13 UTC
Message-ID: <CAEBs8jLyvyE+t=9mDHkD0nUY2SBYymg44BeQbUF0Li4CSZhMWg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20171011180015.mqn5xkj5z4yjdrhm@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Hey Jeff,

Thank you for your mail. It works :)

For future reference, is there a page for known issues of git?

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 11:30 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 11:25:52PM +0530, Ayush Goel wrote:
>
>> 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`.
>
> This is a known issue in v2.14.2 with having "color.ui" set to "always"
> in your config.
>
> There's a fix in v2.15.0-rc1. You can either upgrade to that, or as a
> workaround set "color.ui" to "auto" (or remove it completely from your
> config, as "auto" is the default).
>
> -Peff

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Regards,
Ayush Goel