From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 19:49:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] reset: add an example of how to split a commit into two
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> writes:
>
>> The interdiff between v2 and v3 is not really worth showing since I
>> basically re-wrote the entire section a bit.
>
> 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.

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

I'd do this myself while queuing.

Thanks.

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