Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: Future of GNU Arch, bazaar and bazaar-ng ... ?

[Jan Hudec]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 14:55:50 +0200, Aldrik KLEBER wrote:
> > Also, I often end up making a mess of my repository and would like
> > to be able to commit revisions by cherry-picking changes/hunks.
> > darcs does this very nicely.
> >
> tla and baz too,  this is a natural way of working.
> In my case I use to make a snapshot branch wich contain only the revisions I 
> want and not the others.
> 
> baz branch dev-branch--0.1--patch-5 snap-branch--0.1
> baz branch dev-branch--0.1--patch-8 snap-branch--0.1
> baz branch dev-branch--0.1--patch-35 snap-branch--0.1
> 
> and next snap-branch contains revisions 5, 8, 35

That's all good and well, but it relies on revisions on dev-branch being
clean.

> > So if I made two changes to a file, I can commit once and select
> > only the first hunk, then commit again and let it write the second
> > hunk to the archive.
> you can commit 
> _  the full tree : baz commit
> _ a set of file:  baz commit file1 file2 file3    
> or baz commit --file-list   list_of_file_to_commit.txt
> _  just a file : baz commit file1

But that's not a *HUNK* granularity. *HUNK* granularity means being able to
commit just a *part* of single file -- bazaar, nor most other version control
systems just are not there.

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