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

[Robert Anderson]

Jeremy Shaw wrote:

> On Nov 01, 2005 05:35 AM, Robert Anderson <address@hidden>
> wrote:
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> > I'll throw this one into the ether again:
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> > 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?
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> 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.
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I would like not only to accept/reject, but to factor hunks into an 
arbitrary number of other trees that I create on the fly during the 
process.  Disposing of a hunk would be a special case of that.

Having a one-step accept/reject process would be clumsy and redundant if 
I wanted to split a patch into three parts.  I'd have to reject the 
hunks that belong in the last patch twice.  I'd rather fan them out in 
one step.

Another problem with the accept/reject process that makes it a 
non-starter IMO is that the tree you are committing never exists as a 
fully formed tree that you can build/test/etc.  Factoring out into 
working directories allows you to apply your build/test process to each 
state of the tree independently before committing.

Bob