From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 15:06:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Alternative to manual editing with git add --patch
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1510151702420.31610@s15462909.onlinehome-server.info>
In-Reply-To: <561FAC12.5020007@gmx.de>

Hi Sven,

On Thu, 15 Oct 2015, Sven Helmberger wrote:

> Am 15.10.2015 um 12:11 schrieb Johannes Schindelin:
> > 
> > This is all technically sound. From a usability perspective I would wish
> > more for a way to exclude or filter the lines by a pattern. 
> 
> Why not do both?

Because sometimes more is less. If users are overwhelmed with many, many
options, they are *less* likely to benefit from the few that are easy to
use because they won't find out about them.

Ciao,
Johannes