I've just been trying to use "add -p" to stage some changes which happen to be textually entangled with other changes that I do not want to stage.
It turns out that "git diff --patience" does a really good job splitting this into exactly the hunks I want, but "add --interactive" doesn't let me change the diff algorithm it uses. I tried setting "diff.algorithm" to "patience", but of course add--interactive uses plumbing diff commands that ignore configuration settings.
As a one off, I locally modified add--interactive to unconditionally use patience diff and it has worked perfectly in this case, but I don't want to have to apply a patch if I ever want this behaviour in the future.
I think the first thing to do is read the "diff.algorithm" setting in git-add--interactive and pass its value to the underlying diff-index and diff-files commands, but should we also have a command line parameter to git-add to specify the diff algorithm in interactive mode? And if so, can we simply add "--diff-algorithm" to git-add, or is that too confusing?
