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Re: WANTED: patch splitting tool - waypoints

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Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm>
Date
May 2, 2010, 23:40 UTC
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<20100502234058.GA1818@brong.net>
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On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 05:20:53PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
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> Bron Gondwana <brong@brong.net> writes:
> 
> > And a graphical/
> > ncurses interface like the kernel's "make menuconfig" at
> > the very least would make it much easier than paging
> > through piles of diff fragments and hoping you never
> > made a mistake.
> 
> About the "never made a mistake" part, if you mistakenly add a hunk
> with "git add -p", then "git reset -p" (in recent enough Git's) is
> your friend.

Ooh, that's probably the bit that I was missing :) Excellent. I'll have a play and see how the workflow feels.

Thanks,
Bron.
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