From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 16:47:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC/GSoC 0/2] add a add.patch config variable
Message-ID: <xmqq4mauucx6.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqr3dyud3i.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

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.