porcelain question: state of the art for undo-redo?

Jon Seymour· Jun 11, 2005, 08:51 UTC · lore

What porcelain layer solutions currently exist for effective undo-edit-redo?

For example, if you are working on a series of patches in a series, then realise there is a mistake in a patch early in the series, how does one mod that patch, then reapply all the following patches to produce a slightly modified patch series with as little stuffing around as possible?

jon.

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Daniel Barkalow· Jun 14, 2005, 01:25 UTC · re: Jon Seymour · lore

Re: porcelain question: state of the art for undo-redo?

On Sat, 11 Jun 2005, Jon Seymour wrote:

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> What porcelain layer solutions currently exist for effective undo-edit-redo?
> 
> For example, if you are working on a series of patches in a series,
> then realise there is a mistake in a patch early in the series, how
> does one mod that patch, then reapply all the following patches to
> produce a slightly modified patch series with as little stuffing
> around as possible?

I personally commit changes as I make them (essentially, and time I'm about to make a change that might not work out, I commit the previous state). Once I'm completely satisfied with the results, I redo the whole thing as a series of commits from the base as self-contained changes.

To do this, I get a repository which contains the base (as master) and the result of my previous work. Then I repeat the following steps:

Diff the work against the head into a temporary file. Remove all of the hunks I don't want yet from the file. Apply the file. Commit.

I stop when the diff is either empty or contains only junk I didn't actually mean to include.

Then I submit the series thus created.

I generally then diff once more, remove anything I actually don't want to have (as opposed to wanting to have but not submit), apply and commit to form a new work head. Then I throw away the old work head.

If I screw this up, I just start over, since I have all the actual content safe.

	-Daniel
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