Re: Thanks for git and especially thanks for git add --interactive

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 14, 2022, 05:04 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <CANgJU+WApga2t+Ubzz5sk=7AR5pNCy-Sm8P7pwMULsBpmb8asQ@mail.gmail.com>

demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> writes:

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> I don't know who to thank directly, and I guess it is a community
> effort anyway, but I just wanted to thank everyone involved in making
> ... I have seen people describe it as an
> "advanced" feature, and maybe it is, but I think it is one of the
> *killer* features of git that has impacted the quality of commits
> across the industry.
> ...
> So thanks to everybody on this list, Linus, Junio, and everybody
> involved with making git such an awesome tool, but *especial* thanks
> to whomever it was that dreamed up the interactive commit modes and
> everyone else who worked to make it such a fantastic tool. It has
> literally changed my life.

You're welcome ;-)

If you limit your search of origin to the Git land, I am reasonably sure that I am to blame for "add -i", but I'd freely admit that I stole it from darcs. They may or may not have borrowed from somewhere else, but at this point I do not really care where it came from ;-)