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From: Sven Helmberger <sven.helmberger@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Alternative to manual editing with git add --patch
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 17:22:55 +0200
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Am 15.10.2015 um 17:06 schrieb Johannes Schindelin:

> 
> Because sometimes more is less. If users are overwhelmed with many, many
> options, they are *less* likely to benefit from the few that are easy to
> use because they won't find out about them.
> 

Going from "I want to split at 'x'" to doing so seems just fine. More
than "Ok.. let's find the match I want to search for to have the split I
want", which seems like the opposite of usable.

There are 13 options now not counting help. Not sure it matters much if
we increase that to 14 or 15.

Regards,
Sven