line selection operations for breezy/bazaar

[John Meinel]

The general recommendation with Bazaar is to use shelve to remove the
pieces you want to back out, and then test what you are actually
committing. The staging area of Git is interesting, but it *isn't* what you
are compiling/running which means you aren't actually testing the commit.
It is the inverse operation (instead of staging just what you want to
commit, you shelve just what you want to omit), but it makes it both easier
to know that your commit is correct, and gives equivalent results.

John
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On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 2:08 PM, Brendan Simon <Brendan at brendansimon.com>
wrote:

> Git has the feature of being able to add/discard lines to/from the index,
> or discard lines entirely from working copies of modified files.
>
> Does Breezy/Bazaar have such feature?
>
> If not, is it something developers would like to have?  I certainly find
> the feature useful in Git, when I have to to make various changes (that may
> or may not be related) and then have the ability to commit the related
> parts (chosen lines of chosen modified files) in separate commits.
>
> As far as I know Breezy/Bazaar doesn't have a staging index.  If not, is
> that a problem?  Maybe it could be faked (if need be)?  Maybe via shelving
> perhaps?
>
> These advanced features (selected line commits) are most easily performed
> using a good GUI tool (at least for me), to (a) visualise all the changes,
> and (b) select the lines of interest for the operation (commit, discard).
>
> With Git I use SourceTree on Mac and Windows, and I use Eclipse Egit on
> Linux (and Mac and Windows too).
>
> Is there a Breezy/Bazaar GUI with such advance features.  There was a
> Bazaar Explorer at some stage.  Is that still around and active with Breezy?
>
> I do like the idea some Eclipse integration too.  Maybe Egit can be
> modified/ported to work with Breezy?  Or maybe another Git GUI can be
> adapted to work with Breezy?
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Cheers, Brendan.
>
>
>
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