Re: "git add -p" versus "git add -i", followed by "p"

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

On Sun, 2 Dec 2018, Duy Nguyen wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 6:05 PM Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> > >   Patch update>> 2
> > >              staged     unstaged path
> > >   * 1:    unchanged        +1/-0 README.md
> > >   * 2:    unchanged        +1/-0 contrib/README
> > >     3:    unchanged        +1/-0 t/README
> > >   Patch update>>
> > >
> > > Here I hit enter.  Did you?
> >
> >   perhaps i'm just not seeing it, but from "man git-add", it
> > doesn't seem obvious that you would first select the files to work
> > with, then hit a simple CR to get into actual patch mode.
>
> I think it's the same procedure as the "update" step, which
> describes this in more detail. I agree that the "patch" section does
> not make this obvious.

  thanks, i was hoping i wasn't being a complete idiot. given time, i
may submit a patch to fix the man page unless someone else gets to it
first.

rday

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