On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 12:02 -0700, ser@germane-software.com wrote:
>> I don't see this offering much over performing a diff and committing the
>> specific portions of your working copy which make up a change set. The
>> primary benefit seems to be the ability to commit directory props
>> without committing modified files from that directory, at the cost of
>> completely losing those directory props -- all props, for that matter --
>> when the patch file is re-applied.
>
>How do you "commit specific portions of your working copy"? Just to
>clarify, I'm talking about a mechanism which allows you to commit not only
>whole files, but just parts of a file.
Thanks for the clarification; this is a key distinction. I was
referring to on a file-by-file basis (specified explicitly on the
command-line). More on this below.
...
>A use case example for the problem that I'm trying to solve is:
>
>I'm working on some new feature. Along the way, I stumble across some
>previously undiscovered bug in my code -- something minor, perhaps a typo
>-- so I fix them. I'd like to commit *just* those changes, but I've also
>been changing the file in other places.
Thanks for providing a use case, always helpful.
>The only ways that I know of to do this in SVN is to break out of what I'm
>doing, check out another copy and make the changes there; or try to
>remember what I need to change and implement it after I'm done with what
>I'm doing. Both of these methods interrupts my workflow.
Right. Or, create a patch containing your local changes, revert the
files which contain changes from separate change sets, cherry-pick the
portions of the patch relevant to your first commit, and possibly edit
them out of the patch for subsequent application back to your previous
state. Which I gather is what your script automates, to an extent.
Personally, I keep around multiple working copies on a couple different
machines. Which approach I use depends on the scope of the changes I
want to commit, and the state of my working copies.
Using traditional patch, how do you deal with changes from multiple
change sets within a given hunk? patch's inability to gracefully deal
with this is one of the factors which drives me to use multiple working
copies (build/run/test state of the code being the other primary
factor).
>Just to head off a cost/value discussion: I'm not particularly
>interested
>in trying to convince anybody that block-level commits AKA partial commits
>AKA cherry picked commits is a useful feature; I've already decided that
>it is, and having once wielded the power of block-level commits in darcs,
>I'm unwilling to do without them. My only interest, then, is gaining this
>functionality in SVN, and possibly providing it to others who might be
>interested in it.
Without a doubt, "working copy changeset management" a very useful
feature! I would definitely prefer to reduce the number of working
copies I need to keep around to a minimum.
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Received on Tue Jun 14 00:12:46 2005