From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Splitting changes (was: support for bzr shelve/unshelve in vc-dir) Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:46:43 +0200 Message-ID: <83d42wkl18.fsf@gnu.org> References: <200912011947.nB1JlaAp027561@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <200912030748.nB37m5V4022253@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87k4x431n2.fsf@telefonica.net> <200912030907.nB39781X022853@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259863467 21698 80.91.229.12 (3 Dec 2009 18:04:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 18:04:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, dann@ics.uci.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 03 19:03:52 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NGG1u-0007L5-Q5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:03:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51452 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGG1u-0003Ph-Mp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:03:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGFng-00006N-Jw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:49:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGFnc-0008U1-Uj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:49:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58433 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGFnc-0008Tk-Iu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:49:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:35090) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NGFnc-0007kH-2H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:49:04 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KU300B0082AX800@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:48:41 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.213.252]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KU300AHB8520U70@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:48:39 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:118192 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:05:49 -0500 > Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > I've been interested in this issue for a while now: I've been using > a local patch to VC which adds a command > "vc-prepare-for-partial-commit", which allows to choose which part of > some local changes should be committed and which part should be kept > for later. Sounds like you want to clone the current branch, make some changes there, commit those changes upstream, then merge them with your original branch and return there for more hacking. Is that right? If so, why do we need a VC feature for that -- don't modern VCS support such a workflow already?