And so says Matthieu MOY on 22/08/05 21:39...
> darcs has finer grain than this. You can commit just a hunk for a file,
> i.e. if the diff is
>
> @@...@@
> foo
> -bar
> +baz
> foobar
> @@...@@
> XXX
> -YYY
> ZZZ
>
> you can commit only the "-YYY" if you whish.
IMHO, hunk-level granularity for commits is a serious mistake.
Since you're committing a version of the code that you never actually
had on your machine, you can't possibly have tested it.
I think it encourages errors.
> With tla/baz, you can do it only by making a temporary copy of the working
> directory, undoing the unwanted changes (with something like ediff for
> example), commit-ing in the temporary copy and updating (merge --three-way
> to avoid conflicts) in the other one. That's fine if you do this
> occasionnaly, but not acceptable if you have to do it regularly.
But it's the right way to do it. Bzr makes it much easier, with
"disposable" branches.
best,
Lalo Martins
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