Re: Antw: [EXT] Re: git add --interactive patch improvement for split hunks

> > I'm not sure. I think the topic would have graduated if either you had
> > just applied the squash and merged it down, or if the original author
> > had checked back in over the intervening year to say "hey, what happened
> > to my patch" (either by reading "what's cooking" or manually).
> >
> > I suspect drive-by contributors might not realize they need to do the
> > latter in some cases, but I wouldn't have counted 2014-era Ævar in that
> > boat. So I dunno.
> 
> Or maybe the moral of the story that it's a net addition of complexity
> to git-add--interactive.perl. If I didn't care enough to remember or
> notice the issue again maybe it wasn't all that important to begin with.
> 
> Likewise when it got ejected nobody else seemed to notice/care enough to
> say "hey I liked that feature" & to pick it up.

> I'd entirely forgotten I wrote that. Now that I'm reminded of it I don't
> care enough myself to rebase it, test it again, and especially not to
> figure out if/how it's going to interact with the new C implementation /
> add and adjust a test for the two.
> 
> But maybe someone else will, it would be neat if someone has more of an
> itch from the lack of that feature & wants to pick it up.