Re: Issue when adding new files to staged changes using interactive mode

["Raymond E. Pasco" <ray@ameretat.dev>]

Before I continue rooting around in the source, though, I wonder if the
real issue here isn't the fact that add -p fails to support new files
(requiring the intent-to-add workaround in the first place). I have
always thought it's a confusing user experience that git add -p on a
file that isn't yet tracked simply returns "No changes".

The underlying problem may be, and I say this without intimate knowledge
of the subsystem, that we're now trying to force add-patch.c to do
something it doesn't actually support, namely new files, whereas before
it was attempting to patch what it saw as an empty file.

This (patch-adding new files) is real in my workflow; is there any
reason why git add -p with an explicit argument shouldn't attempt to add
untracked files covered by the explicit argument? (In addition to fixing
it for intent-to-adds.)