Re: Summer of Code project ideas due this Friday

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 06:15:23PM +0100, Thomas Rast wrote:

> * Clean up add -p
> 
>   git-add--interactive.perl became a bit of a mess.  Partly due to my
>   own efforts with {checkout,stash,...} it has bolted-on interfaces to
>   other commands.  There are some UI issues that simply fall out of
>   its design, e.g., you cannot go back from one file to another,
>   Ctrl-C stops applying to the current file but does not discard
>   earlier files, etc.  And that's not saying anything about 'add -i'
>   which I don't really know.
> 
>   This would probably not be a very fun project, but it could add a
>   little edge of usability to the tool and it's probably one of the
>   few pure-Perl ideas we can offer.

One more wishlist item for this. I use "add -p" for almost all of my
adds these days, because I like the final review check. So after a
conflicted merge, I find myself doing "add -p" to stage my resolution.
The current behavior is that it shows the --cc diff and exits. It would
be cool to handle staging the resolution, which would involve converting
the combined diff into something that can be applied.

> I'd be interested to hear how that goes, because I think the tools are
> fundamentally different.  The rebase and thus sequencer family is
> delta-based, and the fast-import and filter-branch families are
> tree-based.  Feel free to prove me wrong of course.

Hmm, yeah, that is a fundamental difference. It might be possible to
overcome it, but I admit I haven't really given it any thought yet at
this point.

-Peff