[Gnu-arch-users] Re: fixing and extending "selected commit"

[Miles Bader]

Robert Anderson <address@hidden> writes:
> I wonder if rather than "restricting attention" you might consider
> actually generating a second tree from the first, with the changes that
> are not to be committed split out into the second tree that is a
> complement of the first.  This would accomodate not only dir and file
> limits, but also hunk limits as well.

That sounds _way_ more inefficient for large trees (whereas `restricting
attition' could _help_ large trees).  Please think of the large trees.

-Miles
-- 
.Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.