Re: Any way to edit the file in index directly?

From: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 8, 2009, 02:27 UTC
Message-ID: <46dff0320904071927l16d54c8bv9c219e681cc96bb2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090408021620.GC18244@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Ping Yin

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:10:41PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:03:03AM +0800, Ping Yin wrote:
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>> > There seems to be a patch for this ( add -e?), but i forget where to
>> > find it.
>>
>> "add -p" has an "e"dit option for editing the patch. I don't recall any
>> way of directly editing the content.
>

> "add -p" has an "e"dit option for editing the patch. I don't recall any
> way of directly editing the content.

Sometimes by 'add -p', i can't get what i want (the patch will fail to apply when exiting editor). And with 'add -p', i can't get a global view of all changes together

> I'm not sure what you mean by "alongside".

By "aloneside" i mean i can open the index and worktree file in diff mode side by side for easily editing.

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> Hmm, actually maybe you are thinking of:
>
>  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/103389
>
> which I even reviewed, but it doesn't seem to have gone anywhere after
> that.
>

Thanks, That's what i want.