Re: Splitting changes (was: support for bzr shelve/unshelve in vc-dir)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:05:49 -0500
> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> I've been interested in this issue for a while now: I've been using
> a local patch to VC which adds a command
> "vc-prepare-for-partial-commit", which allows to choose which part of
> some local changes should be committed and which part should be kept
> for later.

Sounds like you want to clone the current branch, make some changes
there, commit those changes upstream, then merge them with your
original branch and return there for more hacking.  Is that right?  If
so, why do we need a VC feature for that -- don't modern VCS support
such a workflow already?