RE: git with custom diff for commits

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 18, 2007, 22:48 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712182246230.23902@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <000d01c841c5$386f7350$762a14ac@na.acco.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Gerald Gutierrez wrote:

[who said that?  (I know, but would you know in a few weeks?  Right.)]

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> > What you seem to expect is to tell git "commit the changes except this 
> > portion", what you have to tell git is actually "commit the new state, 
> > but not if this portion is the only change". That sounds identical, 
> > but it's actually a bit different.
> 
> It's not what I'm saying.
> 
> Here's what the git-commit manpage on kernel.org says: "git-commit - 
> Record changes to the repository".

Yes. Changes, as in "take this _file_ instead". Not "edit this file, remove those lines, add these here, etc.".

So I think that you were saying exactly what Matthieu suggested.

Ciao, Dscho