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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Feature request - discard hunk in add --patch mode
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:46:10 -0700
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:
>
>> This has come up before, and actually led to the introduction of
>> 'checkout -p' and 'reset -p':
>>
>>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/123854
>
> That is a blast from the past.
>
> Why is saying "git checkout ." too much work, after "add -p" that
> you excluded the debugging cruft?

Please forget this question.  A better way in the form of "stash -p"
was suggested in the old thread to get rid of debug cruft in the
tree before an "add -p" session (or during a series of "add -p"
sessions).

So is this still an issue?