Subject: Re: [PATCH/GSoC] add a add.patch config variable

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 23:30:54 -0700

Dominik Fischer <[email-masked]> writes:

> As the configuration variable can be overwritten by a command line
> option, I am tempted to amend this by replacing all occurrences of
> "git add" in other scripts with "git add --no-patch" to ensure the
> expected behavior.

Don't even think about it--you won't know all scripts you have to
fix like that, as a lot more invocations of "git add" appear in end
user's scripts that we have never seen.