From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 10:14:45 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: Extended splitting for "git add --interactive"
Message-ID: <CALKQrgcHvjuynbmRZWAKWu-Ld1-h7eqEZEBqorPTHW9m8onDGg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5476F4FA020000A100018078@gwsmtp1.uni-regensburg.de>

On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Ulrich Windl
<Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote:
> I probably forgot to mention the obvious: My enhancement request was
> for cases where git would reject so split a hunk. I don't want to
> change the default split (if it finds a point to split).
> So maybe call it a "2nd-level-split". Only if split refuses to split,
> you could avoid using "edit" to manually split.
> I know that in general such things can't be right, but you can
> either reject the new hunks or use "edit". I just guessed the feature
> could save some time on the average.

FWIW, I would very much like a "2nd-level split" where it simply splits
into individual lines. I think it's not worth trying to be extra clever
about it. For your example, I'd simply want the following behavior:

  -AAA
  -BBB
  +CCC
  +DDD
  Stage this hunk? SPLIT

  -AAA
  Stage this hunk? YES

  -BBB
  Stage this hunk? NO

  +CCC
  Stage this hunk? YES

  +DDD
  Stage this hunk? NO

This would allow me to stage the following:

  -AAA
  +CCC

and leave the following unstaged:

  -BBB
  +DDD

but would also allow any other combination.


...Johan

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