Implementation of Indexes Extension

Na'Tosha Bard natosha at unity3d.com
Wed Feb 15 07:04:12 CST 2012


2012/2/15 Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab at web.de>

> Hi Dennis,
>
> At Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:29:54 +0100,
> Dennis Brakhane wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Alexander Sauta <demosito at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > I've briefly looked through the description and didn't quite get why
> index
> > > concept is better than mq. I mean, users like Mercurial for the
> absence of
>> > There are two things the the index does better than MQ:
> >
> > 1. The ability to add only certain changes to a file (qrefresh only
> > supports adding everything)
>
> I think there is qrecord for that.
>

Does qrecord work like the regular record extension and only operate on
full hunks?  IMO, this is one really annoying thing about record -- that
there is no way (that I know of at least) to split hunks and only commit a
part of a hunk.


>
> > 2. The ability to incrementally increase or decrease the stuff that is
> > contained in the changes:
>
> About easy decreasing I don’t know (you need to ask someone who actually
> uses mq in his workflows). Increasing is simple: Just add a new patch to
> the queue and fold the patches in the end.
>
> If you want to actually track multiple patches, you are already beyond the
> capacity of the git index.
>
> Best wishes,
> Arne
>
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