From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Splitting changes Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:26:11 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200912011947.nB1JlaAp027561@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <200912030748.nB37m5V4022253@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87k4x431n2.fsf@telefonica.net> <200912030907.nB39781X022853@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <83d42wkl18.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259868657 7349 80.91.229.12 (3 Dec 2009 19:30:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 19:30:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, dann@ics.uci.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 03 20:30:49 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 1NGHO4-00068P-5r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:30:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51810 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGHO3-0007dh-Tx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:30:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGHMm-0006vR-7p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:29:28 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGHMh-0006r8-Lo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:29:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40466 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGHMh-0006qv-CJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:29:23 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:42552) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NGHMX-0001rF-2J; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:29:13 -0500 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (faina.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.177]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id nB3JQBtj010750; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 14:26:11 -0500 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 5C5DE3A170; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 14:26:11 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <83d42wkl18.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:46:43 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3420=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:118202 Archived-At: >> 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? I want that support right there in VC. Stefan