Hi Junio,


On Tue, 16 Jul 2019, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote:

> This is the first leg on the long journey to a fully built-in git add -i
> (next up: parts 2 [https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/171], 3
> [https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/172], 4
> [https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/173], 5
> [https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/174], and 6
> [https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/175]). Note: the latter PRs are
> not necessarily up to date, and will be re-targeted to the appropriate
> branches in https://github.com/gitster/git as soon as Junio picks them up.
>
> This here patch series reflects the part that was submitted a couple of
> times (see https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/103) during the
> Outreachy project by Slavica Ðukic that continued the journey based on an
> initial patch series by Daniel Ferreira.
>
> It only implements the status and the help part, in the interest of making
> the review remotely more reviewable.
>
> As I am a heavy user of git add -p myself and use a patched version for
> weeks already (it is so nice to not suffer over one second startup until the
> MSYS2 Perl finally shows me anything, instead it feels instantaneous), I
> integrated these patch series into Git for Windows' master already, as an
> opt-in feature guarded by the config variable add.interactive.useBuiltin
> (and Git for Windows' installer is prepared to detect this version and offer
> the option in the graphical user interface).
>
> I had planned on submitting this before v2.22.0-rc0, but there was such a
> backlog of builds from a big pushout that I had to wait ;-)

FWIW the v2 round has not seen any objections...

Maybe pick it up in `pu` this time round?

Thanks,
Dscho