Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: fixing and extending "selected commit"

[Jan Hudec]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 06:35:51 +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Robert Anderson <address@hidden> writes:
> > I wonder if rather than "restricting attention" you might consider
> > actually generating a second tree from the first, with the changes that
> > are not to be committed split out into the second tree that is a
> > complement of the first.  This would accomodate not only dir and file
> > limits, but also hunk limits as well.
> 
> That sounds _way_ more inefficient for large trees (whereas `restricting
> attition' could _help_ large trees).  Please think of the large trees.

No, it can't! You have to make full inventory anyway, because renames
could cause bad things otherwise.

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                                                 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec 
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