On 12/18/2012 03:59 PM, Jeff King wrote: > I always assumed nobody really used the full "add -i", but maybe it is > because I am such a command-line snob. Evan, are you after hunk > selection (like choosing "patch" from the interactive UI), or full path > selection?
Mostly the latter. I have two use cases of 'add -i'. The more common one is if I kind of want -p but don't want to do it for every file. (I guess in part this is my way of substituting for not knowing all the actions during -p as well.) But I sometimes use it if I want to stage several but not all files, as it's often faster for me to just choose the files I want from the interactive add's list than it is for me to type each of the files that I want (even with tab completion) -- I'm often working in a project with unfortunately-deep paths. What I want for my 'discard' action is more like the latter: I'd like a fast way to choose a file(s) to discard without having to type the path(s). Maybe I should just investigate tig or another front end; that might satisfy my desire. Evan
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