Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Use the built-in implementation of the interactive add command by default

From: Philippe Blain <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2021 08:58:36 -0500

Hi Dscho,

Le 2021-11-30 à 09:14, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget a écrit :
> Over two years ago, Slavica Đukić participated in the Outreachy project,
> starting to implement a built-in version of the interactive git add command.
> A little over a year ago, Git turned on that mode whenever users were
> running with feature.experimental = true.
> 
> It is time to declare this implementation robust, to use it by default, and
> to start deprecating the scripted implementation.
> 
> Johannes Schindelin (2):
>    t2016: require the PERL prereq only when necessary
>    add -i: default to the built-in implementation
> 
>   Documentation/config/add.txt |  6 +++---
>   builtin/add.c                | 15 +++++--------
>   ci/run-build-and-tests.sh    |  2 +-
>   t/README                     |  2 +-
>   t/t2016-checkout-patch.sh    | 42 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>   5 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)

I just noticed that 'INSTALL' mentions that Perl is needed for 'git add interactive'
et al, so maybe we would want to tweak the wording a bit in there when switch the default
to the C version ?

Cheers,
Philippe.