Re: yet another workflow question...

> Sorry for cluttering up the list with yet another very basic workflow
> question, but I'm still struggling with finding an answer to the
> burning question, "What can git do for me?"  (So far, I have come to
> the conclusion that, for my simple, single developer, branchless,
> linear projects, there's not much that git can do for me that any
> other SCM could do for me.  It appears to have been designed to solve
> problems for which I have absolutely no appreciation whatsoever. :-))
>
> Anyway, on to basic newbie quesion #107...
>
> I've been working on my project and I realize that I have 3-4 files
> modified with two orthogonal sets of changes.  (I didn't realize this
> until I said to myself -- "Self, I should really check in these files
> before I go too much further down this path".)  So I start "git
> diff"-ing the files and I find that most files have differences
> related to only one change or the other, but one file has differences
> related to both changes.
>
> What do others do in this situation?
> a) Not allow themselves to get into this situation in the first place
> by careful planning?
>
> b) Copy the file to "file.bothchanges", edit out one set of changes,
> commit that with one log message, edit back in the other set of
> changes, edit in the other set of changes, commit that with another
> log message?
>
> c) Use some sort of automation to do option (b) for them?
>
> d) Something else?