Re: [PATCH v5 1/9] Start to implement a built-in version of `git add --interactive`

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

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As I do not see those past '--helper' ones necessarily successes, we
must agree to disagree here.

Right. But if I recall, you never even saw the need for the conversions
in the first place. Maybe you still don't?

You probably are forgetting the fact that I was very supportive for
the rewrite of checkout, commit and format-patch (the last one being
my favorite) in C from scripted Porcelain.  

None of these were '--helper' style conversion and I would consider
them much more successful than the recent ones, some of which still
suffer from impedance mismatch bugs (e.g. some parts of the C
implementation work on the in-core index, while other parts working
on the on the on-disk index, letting them become out of sync and
introducing bugs).