Well, if a bunch of things are removed at once, I don't care about the
order, since it's the same.  But I do care about being able to
separate them into different deltas after the fact.

It may seem a little obscure at the moment, but this feature is what
made darcs popular.

On 10/5/07, Matthew Fulmer <tapplek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 07:19:58AM +0200, Jason Johnson wrote:
> > G?ran,
> >
> > Did you miss my question from this message, or are you mad at me? :)
> >
> > On 9/11/07, Jason Johnson <jason.johnson.081 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I downloaded the new Deltas the other day.  First I must say it looked
> > > good, I like how it's going.
> > >
> > > Second is, I noticed you group certain changes together as one.  For
> > > example if I delete a bunch of iVars and say "accept" that will show
> > > up as one change.  How does this work with cherry picking?  For
> > > example, if I'm working maintenance and I fix 3 bugs at once, it might
> > > be that I remove a bunch of variables from a class as part of the fix.
> > >  Then later I want to move the variable removals into a change set
> > > named after the bug.  Will I be able to separate them after the fact?
>
> I forgot all about this question. I don't know how common this
> use case would be, but I am building the unit tests to support
> lots of wierd cases, and this one seems less obscure than the
> ones I have tested.
>
> It seems reasonable. A big constraint of the instance variable
> modifying code is that the order of instance variables is
> important, so add/remove won't always cut it. See the thread:
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2007-August/119602.html
>
> Perhaps a series of ivar additions could be modeled as:
> add: #ivar3 after: #ivar1
> add: #ivar3 beforeIndex: 2
> add: #ivar3 newState: #(ivar1 ivar3 ivar2)
>
> The current model is
> before: #(ivar1 ivar2); after: #(ivar1 ivar3 ivar2)
> but yes, it does group several additions as one change
>
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