Re: RFC: Patch editing

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 27, 2007, 20:07 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702272106150.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702271201400.6485@iabervon.org>

Hi,

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

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> One nice thing about my method is that, if you've had to make a dozen 
> unrelated changes to get something to compile and run far enough to test 
> whether any of the changes are actually correct, you can be sure to get 
> that work preserved. I'd be a lot less comfortable preparing 
> intermediate states if I didn't have the final state securely tucked 
> away.

You _could_ still ensure that by looking in the reflog which was your old tip-of-branch, and git-diff with that.

But I agree. That is why I commit _everything_ before rearranging.

Ciao, Dscho