Re: [Monotone-devel] Perhaps strange request: partial per-file commit

[Ralf S. Engelschall]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2008, Thomas Moschny wrote:

> On Tuesday 15 January 2008, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> > So, it would be also nice
> > to have the "hunk restriction" feature for "mtn diff":
> >
> >     $ mtn diff file11:-2,-4
>
> You can use filterdiff from the very useful patchutils[1] collection for that:
>
>   mtn diff file11 | filterdiff -# 1,3,5-
>
> would show hunks one, three and all hunks starting from the fifth.
> Selecting hunks based on which lines they contain is also possible.

Ok, right, for "mtn diff" this works. But unfortunately, for the main
purpose, the partial per-file commit, it still doesn' help... :-(

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