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Re: [PATCH/RFC/GSoC 0/2] add a add.patch config variable

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 21, 2016, 16:47 UTC
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Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
> A config variable to set an option by default is good when the user
> wants to set it and forget about it. In this case, you clearly can't
> "forget about it", as running "git add" and "git add -p" correspond to
> really different use-cases.

That is the most sensible explanation I've heard so far; the configuration variable add.patch should not exist, period.

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