committing some lines

[Uwe Brauer]

>>> "SF" == Steve Fink <sphink at gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Oct 1, 2023 at 11:55 PM Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel at crazy-compilers.com>
> wrote:

>> 
>> I will watch it, because I've heard such good things about magit, but to
> be clear: I don't have much interest in using git any more than I have to.
> I started with git and used it for some time before I ended up on a project
> that uses mercurial, and I don't want to go back. I still use git here and
> there, but even for github now I prefer using it via Facebook's sapling
> fork of mercurial. So until magit gains support for hg, it's only of
> academic interest to me.

> Mercurial doesn't have a staging area / index / cache, and I don't miss it.
>> 
>> I miss it a lot, since it makes it much harder to split the current state
>> of the working directory into smaller pieces.
>> 
>> Maybe a top-level commit which get amended (as you mention in your other
>> post) can work like a staging area. Actually I don't care about how this is
>> solved, as long a tooling is powerful — and this is what mercurial is
>> lacking,
>> 
>> "hg commit --interactive" works per-chunk only — which is not fine-grained
>> enough for my needs. And the ncurses interface available for "hg commit
>> --interactive" is, well, has potential for improvement.


Maybe I was not clear enough. Magit is a emacs package, right?

As I said below Dmitry Gutov implemented a feature within emacs for hg, 

that not only allows you to commit certain chunks, no you can even
delete lines from that chunk and still commit. I recommend you to give
it a try.



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