Comments on: git commit / darcs record

By: Aman Gupta

Aman Gupta — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:02:42 +0000

I just discovered git add –patch, which is a similar and built right into git:

-p, –patch
Similar to Interactive mode but the initial command loop is bypassed and the patch subcommand is
invoked using each of the specified filepatterns before exiting.

By: Shanti Braford

Shanti Braford — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:55:45 +0000

Thanks for this writeup. I’m just getting started with git, but it seems incredible.

By: Adrian Irving-Beer

Adrian Irving-Beer — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:45:39 +0000

Re: “It also asks for new files to be added even if this is not exactly how darcs behave” …

Actually, this is exactly how my darcs behaves. Are you aware of the “–look-for-adds” option? I turned it on for exactly the reason you state — with CVS, I was tired of missing new files I forgot to explicitly add.

(In fact, my SCM path has been CVS –> GNU arch –> darcs, and I instated my “all files must be added unless explicitly ignored” policy very early in my “arch” usage. Switching to darcs just meant I could relax that to “all files will be prompted for adding unless explicitly ignored”. Nicer to use, but with the same result.)

To make this a global default, I just stuck these lines into my ~/.darcs/defaults:

record look-for-adds
whatsnew look-for-adds

Beware, though — if you ever use the “tailor” utility (http://progetti.arstecnica.it/tailor/) to convert to/from darcs, you should be careful to *disable* this in the tailor’ed darcs tree. In the case of darcs as a ‘tailor’ target, it issues ‘remove’ commands but does *not* delete the files in question from the tree. Leaving ‘look-for-adds’ on will silently fail to record deletions, with all the consequences that entails.

By: Raphaël Slinckx

Raphaël Slinckx — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:45:29 +0000

No colors undortunately. It would require re-parsing the diff output. Or finding a way to request a colored diff from git along with the uncolored one that is parsable

By: Peter Lund

Peter Lund — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:36:36 +0000

Cool! Does it do the colours too? (particularly the red $ sign after trailing spaces)

By: Raphaël Slinckx

Raphaël Slinckx — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 19:40:10 +0000

Tester: I never use them, but they could be trivially added

By: Tester

Tester — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 19:33:50 +0000

What about f and s?

By: Raphaël Slinckx

Raphaël Slinckx — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:23:09 +0000

Y = yes, select this hunk
n = no, don’t select this hunk
d = done, answer no to any remaining patches
a = all, answer yes to any remaining patches

Y is default action if you hit enter.

By: Jure

Jure — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:01:00 +0000

Looks interesting enough. I just switched from svn, but I think I’m going to try it. What I find confusing (not having darcs background) is what does Ynda stand for. Y and n I can guess, but d and a? Reading the patch also doesn’t enlighten me

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:18:19 +0000

Nice script! But, someone I know wrote a similar script, that emulates a lot more of the darcs interface on top of git.

http://ftp.frugalware.org/pub/other/pacman-tools/pacman-tools/darcs-git.py
http://ftp.frugalware.org/pub/other/pacman-tools/pacman-tools/darcs-git.txt