From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2026 22:54:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [GSoC PATCH v2] add -p: show user's hunk decision when selecting hunks
Message-ID: <xmqqpl7tc5a9.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <aVbgkySezz8YV6sN@Adekunles-MacBook-Air.local>

Abraham Samuel Adekunle <abrahamadekunle50@gmail.com> writes:

> When a user is interactively deciding which hunks to use or skip for
> staging, unstaging, stashing etc, there is no way to know the
> decision previously chosen for a hunk when navigating through the
> previous and next hunks using K/J respectively.
>
> Improve the UI to explicitly show if a user has previously decided to
> use a hunk (by pressing 'y') or skip the hunk (by pressing 'n').
> This will improve clarity when and aid the navigation process for the
> user.
>
> Reported-by: Reported-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Abraham Samuel Adekunle <abrahamadekunle50@gmail.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> --------------
> - Modified subject to indicate GSoC participation and user's hunk decision.
> - Modified the code to detect the user's decision for each front-end set
>   that uses the interactive patch machinery
> - Changes the decision phrase to 'previous decision: _decision_' from
>   'Selected/Deselected'
> - Placed the decision phrase before the [choices] instead of after the [choices].
>  add-patch.c | 84 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
>  1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

Doesn't this break t3701?