[rfc] creating clean diffs

[Michael Ellerman]

On 7/4/06, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
> On  3 Jul 2006, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> > Anyway, just something I wanted to see if anyone had any ideas on how to
> > solve.
>
> It depends a bit on whether you want to keep all the intermediate
> commits of your work.  In general I like to, but sometimes (if I've
> followed a convoluted path) I want to throw things away and just have
> the final diff.  (And you can have tools like mq to help you do that.)

In my dreams there's a sweet GUI tool that takes a bunch of revisions
on a branch, and a target branch, and allows you to visually
reorganise the changes (ie. diff hunks) into a set of "nice"
revisions, which then get committed on the target branch.

When I break a leg ..

cheers