Re: Feature Request: abilty to commit specific chunks of a file in arevision

On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 17:06 +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:

> > Does this sound like a sane feature request?
>
>
> It does indeed, as I have on multiple occasions had to emulate this sort of
> behaviour by copying aside my working file, then selectively undoing
> changes, committing, then moving the copied-aside file back.

Yes, this is my current method of resolution as well, but it is tedious
after a while.

> This is a difficult problem, both in UI and backend design. It needs a way
> to easily define ranges of change to commit, and a way to effectively store
> these changes, since they may be required to persist for the duration of
> several edit-compile-test cycles, whilst displaying the correct information
> in svn diff and then committing the correct parts in svn commit.

OK, tricky problems are always fun right :p?

I've had several positive messages about this, enough to convince me
it's not completely wacky so I've filed it as issue #2422 in the svn
issue tracker.

Regards

-- 
Matt Brown
matt@mattb.net.nz
Mob +64 275 611 544 www.mattb.net.nz
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