Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: file-limited commit on new file

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>

    > As was pointed out in the previous threads, there are natural and 
consistent
    > methods of dealing with such cases.  

That's false.  Previous threads came up with one idea that _might_ be
natural (and very well might not) and needs some work to actually be
rigorously enough described to be implemented.

    > The undo recipe you mention often won't work because -- in my experience 
--
    > one usually realizes the need to commit the new file _after_ adding it, so
    > you really have to do something like:

    >    mv new-file.c ,new-file.c
    >    tla undo
    >    mv ,new-file.c new-file.c
    >    tla commit ...
    >    tla redo

Oh the horror.

-t