Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: file-limited commit on new file

[Jean]

Tom Lord wrote:

>    > From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
>
>    > As was pointed out in the previous threads, there are natural and 
> consistent
>    > methods of dealing with such cases.  
>
> That's false.  Previous threads came up with one idea that _might_ be
> natural (and very well might not) and needs some work to actually be
> rigorously enough described to be implemented.
>
>    > The undo recipe you mention often won't work because -- in my experience --
>    > one usually realizes the need to commit the new file _after_ adding it, so
>    > you really have to do something like:
>
>    >    mv new-file.c ,new-file.c
>    >    tla undo
>    >    mv ,new-file.c new-file.c
>    >    tla commit ...
>    >    tla redo
>
> Oh the horror.
>
>  
But an effective one and easily automated in a shell script. I happen to 
have just encountered this problem and using this recipe allowed me to 
insert my new files in a clean changeset.
However if this is truly horrible (apart from being heavy on the user) I 
would love to hear of a better alternative, I can't think of one right now.

Jean
ps: sorry tom, missed the reply all on the first time

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