Re: [Gnu-arch-users] into the ether again: wd factor

[Jeremy Shaw]

On Nov 01, 2005 05:35 AM, Robert Anderson <address@hidden>
wrote:

> I'll throw this one into the ether again:

> If there was a way to take a tree and split out changes hunk by hunk 
> into two or more trees (including a null tree), wouldn't the power of 
> changesets really finally be there in a way that's far more useful?

This is the default behaviour in darcs -- when you do 'darcs record',
it will iterate through each hunk, rename, etc, and ask if you want
to include it in the changeset. You can also do, 'darcs record -a',
to record everything.

Even if you are very careful about creating clean changesets, this is a 
useful feature. For example, sometimes the build process will patch
files,
and you don't want to commit those changes. Running:

 'make clean && tla commit && make' 

Can take a very long time (hours) for something like x.org or OOo.

j.