From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: git 1.8.0.rc0.18.gf84667d trouble with "git commit -p file" Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 14:30:26 -0400 Message-ID: <20121006183026.GA3644@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <201210051420.q95EKjj3008300@netbook1.inf.utfsm.cl> <7vsj9ssgcp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20121005225758.GA1202@sigill.intra.peff.net> <7v8vbkru8o.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20121006131200.GB11712@sigill.intra.peff.net> <7vvcenqx39.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Frans Klaver , git@vger.kernel.org, "Horst H. von Brand" , Conrad Irwin To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Oct 06 20:30:41 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TKZ97-0000ZK-8g for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 20:30:41 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753256Ab2JFSab (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Oct 2012 14:30:31 -0400 Received: from 75-15-5-89.uvs.iplsin.sbcglobal.net ([75.15.5.89]:43117 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751968Ab2JFSab (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Oct 2012 14:30:31 -0400 Received: (qmail 9691 invoked by uid 107); 6 Oct 2012 18:31:03 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with ESMTPA; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 14:31:03 -0400 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 06 Oct 2012 14:30:26 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vvcenqx39.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 11:22:50AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King writes: > > > Another option is to leave it with "-i" semantics in the meantime, which > > are at least easy to explain: it is simply a shorthand for running "git > > add -p && git commit". That may be inconsistent with other aspects of > > commit, but people have (apparently) been happy with it, and there has > > not been a rash of complaints. > > Yeah, that would be the safest and possibly the sanest way forward. > Did the documentation update patch by Conrad on the other subthread > look sane to you? I haven't read it very carefully yet. I didn't notice any documentation patch, and I can't find one looking through the archive. Do you have a link? -Peff