Patch hunk edition

[Patrick Mézard]

Le 21/01/10 10:26, Masklinn a écrit :
> I know there's been talk about that in the past, mostly for "hunk splitting" (the ability to split a change group in two during e.g. hg record), git has had hunk splitting for quite some time, and with 2.4 darcs added "full" hunk edition (alteration, splitting, deletion and insertion of sections of patch hunks during interactive operations).
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> That gives at least a basic spec/UI of how things could (should) work: http://wiki.darcs.net/HunkEditor

Here is another description of what happens in git and darcs:

     http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2010-January/018177.html

I wonder if we want hunk editing or hunk splitting. There is a beginning of discussion in the followups of the previous link, but it would be great to hear other people opinions here.

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Patrick Mézard