git config: interactive.singleKey

Christophe Colombier - Aug 10 '22 - - Dev Community

In my previous post, I talked about --patch option.

If you are using --patch (or -p that is the short version) quite a lot like me, you may be happy to discover the following configuration setting interactive.singleKey

In interactive commands, allow the user to provide one-letter input with a single key (i.e., without hitting enter)

More information here:
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config.txt-interactivesingleKey

Here is how to activate it

git config --global interactive.singleKey true
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Then next time, you will use patch mode, you won't need to press enter after choosing among y,n,a,q,d,e

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