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It interactively shows you each change that would be added and lets you decide whether it should be staged or not. Down to the hunk level, so you can partially stage a file if you so choose.
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Oh, that's neat.

The -p presumably stands for pInteractive with a silent p :)

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Ha! It’s actually patch (as in select parts of the patch) though I remember it as partial.

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There's -i for interactive, lets you add, patch and reset (unstage).

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LOL it might stand for "prompt before"

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Ah, that's what magit does by default.

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