Re: On the adoption of transient.el

[Juri Linkov]

>> `git stash pop -q`
>
> For your consideration, here's a description of the strategy used by the
> venerable commit-patch command/package:
>
> https://github.com/caldwell/commit-patch/blob/master/commit-patch#L212-L214

Thanks for the reference, it's a good example for implementing
a similar command in vc.

> - Let the user edit a diff in the diff-mode buffer
> - Save it to a file
> - 'git apply --cached', to put the contents to the staging area
> - 'git commit'

But these commands don't perform a merge when committing a patch
with changes in the same file.  So afterwards `git diff` will show
the reversed diff for already committed changes.

This means there are no alternatives to using `git stash pop`
that performs the merge.