On 3/20/15, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Abilio Marques <abili...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I personally would like a selective stash. Perhaps one where you can
>> selectively push some changes (then fossil could proceed to remove them
>> from the actual files), or selectively pop/apply some changes (but I
>> imagine this one could get things confusing, specially if used with
>> apply).
>> ...
>> What are your opinions? Is this useful? Is this powerful? What would your
>> approaches be?​
>>
>
> IMO it's inherently evil because it promotes checking in untested subsets.
> Automated tests require a full, valid tree. Checking in a part of a change
> may well lead to code which runs on your machine but doesn't run on remotes
> (continuous integration systems or other users).
>

I agree with Stephan, except to note that some repositories do not
store code.  If you are checking in changes to text documentation,
then maybe testing is not as important and a partial commit would be
ok.

I'm still having trouble understanding how the partial commit would be
*useful*, though.
-- 
D. Richard Hipp
d...@sqlite.org
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