From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 21:20:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/GSoC] add a add.patch config variable
Message-ID: <xmqqvb4b7eu9.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <1458853787-29807-2-git-send-email-d.f.fischer@web.de>

XZS <d.f.fischer@web.de> writes:

> Users may like to review their changes when staging by default. It is
> also a convenient safety feature for beginners nudging them to have a
> second look at their changes when composing a commit.
>
> To this end, the config variable allows to have git-add to always act
> like -p was passed.

Now with such a configuration in her ~/.gitconfig, how would she
ever run the normal "git add", which perhaps is invoked by one of
the scripts she regularly uses?  E.g. "git mergetool"?