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Re: selective git-update-index per diff(1) chunks

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SVSven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date
Dec 4, 2006, 17:33 UTC
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On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:23:14PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
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> Has anyone thought about aggregating this into git-update-index or
> somewhere?
> 
>    git-update-index -C1,3    #chunks 1, 3
>    git commit
>    git-update-index -C1,3    # chunks 2,5 in original numbering
>    git commit
> 
> Relying on diff(1) definition of chunks is sorta hacky, though... I admit 
> it.

Paul Mackerras modified his dirdiff tool to do something like this. I have a couple of patches on top of his version from way back at http://www.liacs.nl/~sverdool/gitweb.cgi?p=dirdiff.git;a=summary

I don't know if he has continued working on this.
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  1. Alexey DobriyanDec 1, 2006
  2. Peter BaumannDec 1, 2006
  3. Junio C HamanoDec 1, 2006
  4. Anand KumriaDec 1, 2006
  5. Johannes SchindelinDec 1, 2006
  6. Sam VilainDec 2, 2006
  7. Linus TorvaldsDec 1, 2006
  8. Sven VerdoolaegeDec 4, 2006
  9. Jakub NarebskiDec 4, 2006
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  11. Sven VerdoolaegeDec 4, 2006
  12. Jakub NarebskiDec 4, 2006

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