A partial commit is useful when you have several unrelated changes in the
same pakage and you don't want to commit them all.
A clean and costly process would be to
- save all changes locally (file out, local package-cache, whatever...)
- download a fresh and clean up to date image
- selectively re-install some of the changes in clean image
- test
- commit
An alternative is to partially commit to a local package from the dirty
image, and load from clean.
A quick and dirty process is to directly and partially commit to inbox or
trunk from the dirty image (more dangerous, but for a few lines of changes
it rocks).


2013/5/3 Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com>

> What is a partial commit and when/why do I want to do it?
>
> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
> wrote:
> > Good point, I'm not sure. Colin? If this is a problem we should
> > disallow/warn about partial commits from merges.
> >
> > - Bert -
> >
> > On 2013-05-03, at 13:23, Nicolas Cellier
> > <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > A possible side effect with this scenario:
> >
> > 1) I merge load trunk package version X
> > 2) I merge a third-party version Z,
> > 3) I partially publish version Y without the Z changes.
> >
> > Will Z figure in the Y ancestors?
> > If so, that might be a problem when later trying to merge Z again in
> another
> > image...
> >
> > Nicolas
> >
> >
> > 2013/5/3 Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 2013-05-02, at 20:49, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On 2 May 2013 19:19, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> Hmph -- since you were asking for consensus on something, it would be
> >> >> nice to have a little more time to respond -- as I did in < 24 hours,
> >> >> but still apparently too late.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> didn't get much discussion.  ay we please have more time
> >> >
> >> > Sure. In my defence, this was seriously getting in my way... but I
> >> > guess the response to that is "well keep the change in your image".
> >> > Ah, well.
> >> >
> >> > frank
> >>
> >>
> >> Maybe you should try my "allow partial commits" Monticello mod
> >> (Monticello-bf.540 in inbox). I have been using it for months now and it
> >> works really well. Back in January I got a few +1s but Chris was
> opposed so
> >> I did not put it into trunk, yet. I have not found the time to add the
> "do
> >> yet another snapshot when pressing save" Chris wanted because in my
> workflow
> >> it's not needed. But perhaps it's good enough? For me it certainly was a
> >> relief keeping some changes to my image while still being able to commit
> >> "clean" packages to trunk.
> >>
> >> - Bert -
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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