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From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: How to split a big commit
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 18:52:45 +0700
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After a lot of small commits and a few mixed up large commits, it was
too messy that I merged them all into one big commit then started
spliting it into smaller, reasonable patches. Just wonder if anybody
else faces the same thing and how they deal with it. I used "git reset
--soft <big commit>^" and "git add -N" because there were new files,
but it was clumsy.
-- 
Duy