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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: fixing and extending "selected commit"
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Miles Bader |
Subject: |
[Gnu-arch-users] Re: fixing and extending "selected commit" |
Date: |
02 Oct 2003 15:39:20 +0900 |
Jan Hudec <address@hidden> writes:
> > > I wonder if rather than "restricting attention" you might consider
> > > actually generating a second tree from the first, with the changes that
> > > are not to be committed split out into the second tree that is a
> > > complement of the first.
> >
> > That sounds _way_ more inefficient for large trees (whereas `restricting
> > attition' could _help_ large trees). Please think of the large trees.
>
> No, it can't! You have to make full inventory anyway, because renames
> could cause bad things otherwise.
It sounded like Robert was suggesting making a _real copy_ of the
_whole_ tree, way more inefficient than a full inventory (which are
actually pretty cheap these days).
I suspect that even the full inventory isn't necessary in many common
cases either (e.g., a simple list of filenames that haven't been renamed).
-miles
--
Occam's razor split hairs so well, I bought the whole argument!
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] fixing and extending "selected commit", Jan Hudec, 2003/10/01
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] fixing and extending "selected commit", Robert Anderson, 2003/10/01
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: fixing and extending "selected commit", Miles Bader, 2003/10/01
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: fixing and extending "selected commit", Robert Anderson, 2003/10/02
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: fixing and extending "selected commit", Tom Lord, 2003/10/02
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: fixing and extending "selected commit", Miles Bader, 2003/10/02
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: fixing and extending "selected commit", Tom Lord, 2003/10/02
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: fixing and extending "selected commit", Robert Anderson, 2003/10/02
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: fixing and extending "selected commit", Miles Bader, 2003/10/02
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: fixing and extending "selected commit", Robert Collins, 2003/10/02
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: fixing and extending "selected commit", Miles Bader, 2003/10/03