Re: [PATCH v3] reset: add an example of how to split a commit into two

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 16, 2017, 19:49 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> writes:
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>> The interdiff between v2 and v3 is not really worth showing since I
>> basically re-wrote the entire section a bit.
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> Could this be made into an incremental, now that v2 has been in
> 'next' for about 10 days, please?

Nah, I think it is easier to read "log -p" if I just revert v2 out of existence from 'next', and queue this (with a minor typofixes) as a different topic to be merged later to 'master'.

So no need to resend and certainly no need to make it incremental.

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>> +Split a commit apart into a sequence of commits::
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>> +Suppose that you have create lots of logically separate changes and commit them
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> s/create/&d/; s/commit/&ed/

I'd do this myself while queuing.

Thanks.

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>> +together. Then, later you decide that it might be better to have each logical
>> +chunk associated with its own commit. ...