Re: git 1.8.0.rc0.18.gf84667d trouble with "git commit -p file"

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

Another option is to leave it with "-i" semantics in the meantime, which
are at least easy to explain: it is simply a shorthand for running "git
add -p && git commit". That may be inconsistent with other aspects of
commit, but people have (apparently) been happy with it, and there has
not been a rash of complaints.

Yeah, that would be the safest and possibly the sanest way forward.
Did the documentation update patch by Conrad on the other subthread
look sane to you?  I haven't read it very carefully yet.