From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2019 07:14:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Change behavior of git add --patch on newly added file?
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In-Reply-To: <xmqq5zjtn07v.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com> writes:
>
>> Should 'git add -p <newly-added-file>' do the same thing as 'git add -N
>> <newly-added-file && git add -p <newly-added-file>'?
> ...
> Patches welcome, but you may want to check with Dscho as there is an
> effort going on to reimplement the entire "add -i" machinery in C.

Oh, having said all that, for a newly added file, all you have is a
hunk that is full of added lines and nothing else, so even 's'plit
interactive subcommand of "add -p" interface would not do anything.

So I am not sure if performing an implicit "add -N" upfront would
help your use case that much.  For that, you'd need to extend hunk
splitting UI a bit more, so that the user can split a hunk that only
adds lines into two at a desired point in the hunk.