Re: Two feature ideas for diffs

[Ivan Andrus]

On Nov 7, 2013, at 3:11 PM, Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> wrote:

> Tom <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> The other interesting feature is editable diffs. So, for example,
>> before checking in one usually does a diff to see what was
>> changed in the file. If you notice a typo then you go back to the
>> file, fix it, do a diff again to check the changes, etc. PyCharm
>> lets you edit the diff instead, so if you made a typo then you
>> can fix it in the diff buffer and it is applied to the original
>> file. It would be a nice convenience feature.
> 
> I've been pointed to https://github.com/caldwell/commit-patch in the
> past, but it depends on Perl, and I haven't gotten around to trying it.

I can give commit-patch a hearty two thumbs up (I've used it mostly with 
mercurial and git).

-Ivan