Re: [Gnu-arch-users] request for comments on partial commits

[Matthew Hannigan]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:57:31PM -0800, Andy Tai wrote:
> Hi, for the partial commit problem I am thinking of a simple method: 
> the user will have to commit the whole tree after a file renaming or
> file deletion operation, which means the change to the directory
> content.  Are there any objection to this approach as a short-term
> measure?   Thanks for comments on this.

I think that's the right thing to do for the short term.

Another perhaps more useful but more complicated "solution"
would be to partial commits if the partial commit did not
overlap any meta (rename,delete) operations.  Not sure how
hard this is though.

Matt