testing adding by patch for the very first time (i've just never needed this), and reading the "progit" book and reading the man page, and the impression i'm getting is that running "git add -p" (going straight to patch mode) is supposed to be equivalent to running "git add -i", then typing "p" to switch to patch mode. that is most emphatically not what i'm seeing. if i run "git add -p", then i get to what i expect -- the patch subsystem: $ git add -p diff --git a/README.asc b/README.asc index fa40bad..840e85b 100644 --- a/README.asc +++ b/README.asc @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +change 1 + + + + + = Pro Git, Second Edition Welcome to the second edition of the Pro Git book. Stage this hunk [y,n,q,a,d,j,J,g,/,e,?]? but if i start with "git add -i", there seems to be no way to get to patch mode -- certainly "p" doesn't do it. am i stupidly missing something trivial? is the explanation misleading or inncomplete? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca/dokuwiki Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================