From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:33:18 GMT
Subject: Re: selective git-update-index per diff(1) chunks
Message-ID: <20061204173318.GG940MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <b6fcc0a0612010323x7554e47m5e6bdafe85fc8224@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:23:14PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> 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.