Re: How to commit hunks using VC?

[Carlos Konstanski]

Though this does not technically answer the question, there is a very
nice plugin called magit. It's available from `list-packages'.

Carlos

Am Freitag, den 26.10.2018, 11:56 -0400 schrieb Stefan Monnier:
> > Is it possible to commit only some hunks using VC?
> 
> Many years ago, I used a local patch to VC that allowed me to do
> "partial commits".  The way it worked, basically was:
> - save/copy the current changes to some auxiliary file (there was no
>   `git stash` back then, but it was similar, except it didn't
> actually
>   change the files).
> - then I could undo the hunks I didn't want to commit any which way
>   I wanted (using diff-mode or manual editing, you name it).
> - upon commit the previously saved changes were automatically be
>   brought back.
> 
> Nowadays, you can basically do the same with `git stash`, but there's
> indeed no "generic VC" support for it (only for the Git backend).
> 
> 
>         Stefan
> 
>