From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 06:30:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/GSoC] add a add.patch config variable
Message-ID: <xmqqio0b5ash.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <56F489C3.9050400@web.de>

Dominik Fischer <d.f.fischer@web.de> writes:

> As the configuration variable can be overwritten by a command line
> option, I am tempted to amend this by replacing all occurrences of
> "git add" in other scripts with "git add --no-patch" to ensure the
> expected behavior.

Don't even think about it--you won't know all scripts you have to
fix like that, as a lot more invocations of "git add" appear in end
user's scripts that we have never seen.