Re: An alternate model for preparing partial commits

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

David Jeske wrote:

> reorder: Picture that a list of commits on this branch opens in an editor. You
> are free to rearrange the lines in any order you want, but you have to keep all
> the lines. When you are done reordering the lines, the tool creates a new topic
> branch and applies the changes (probably with cherrypick) to the new topic
> branch. If there are no conflicts, you're done.
> 
> merge: Picture now that in your editor you can create groupings of those
> individual commits that should make up separate topic-branches. The operation
> can still be performed automatically, and at the end, it can compose those
> topic branches into a single branch just like your original. At this point, you
> can "isolate" any one of those topic branches and test/push that topic branch.

git rebase --interactive?
Any patch management interface (StGIT, Guilt)?
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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