[Python-Dev] PEP: Collecting information about git (original) (raw)

Augie Fackler raf at durin42.com
Wed Sep 16 04:14:55 CEST 2015

Chris Angelico <rosuav gmail.com> writes:

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Augie Fackler <raf durin42.com> wrote: >> but git is still better at it: git add -p >> allows me to review and edit patches before commit while hg record >> commits immediately. > > FWIW, I totally get wanting a staging area. That said, other than the > staging area, record (aka commit --interactive) and git add -p are identical > functionality-wise. We also now ship (at least as of 3.5) a curses UI for > record, which is quite nice. Looks like it's time I spun up my own hg, rather than using the 3.1.2 that ships with Debian.

Clone https://selenic.com/hg and run make deb - it's not quite done (doesn't include system configs for using the ca-certificates files for ssl trust), but it should give you usable debs on your system. Please let me know if it doesn't work for you!

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A better UI for interactive (partial) commits would go a long way toward filling the hole left by not having a staging area; though I'll still miss it, some, in the most complicated cases (where I use 'git gui' to stage and unstage bits, then check in 'gitk' that it looks right, continue until happy). Fortunately the complicated cases are rare, but when my non-technical mother or my technical-but-decades-out-of-date father needs help fixing up a repository problem, I make good use of git's staging power.

Mentioning in the PEP that some of these things are available as of version X might help bridge the gap between one author's knowledge and a core dev's skills. ChrisA

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