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Yeah, I don't know why I linked that as an example. Wanted to show structure of a patch. Each commit of a patch already has everything ready to be processed and

• mdaniel 1y ago
  > > Some make a semantic diff splitter please! Break up big commits into small, atomic, meaningful ones. > Each commit of a patch already has everything ready to be processed and chunked IF you keep them - small, atomic, semantically meaningful. As in do smaller commits. Reads like: User1: I need help with my colleagues who do not make independent, small, semantically intact commits User2: well, have you tried making smaller, more independent, semantically intact commits? --- My interpretation of the wish is to convert this, where they have intermixed two semantically independent changes in one diff: +++ a/alpha.py --- b/alpha.py def doit(): - awesome = 3.14 + awesome = 4.56 - print("my dog is fluffy") + print("my cat is fluffy") into this +++ a/alpha.py --- b/alpha.py def doit(): - awesome = 3.14 + awesome = 4.56 print("my dog is fluffy") +++ a/alpha.py --- b/alpha.py def doit(): awesome = 3.14 - print("my dog is fluffy") + print("my cat is fluffy") where each one could be cherry-picked at will because they don't semantically collide The semantics part would be knowing that this one could not be split in that manner, because the cherry-pick would change more than just a few lines, it would change the behavior +++ a/alpha.py --- b/alpha.py def doit(): - the_weight = 3.14 + the_weight = 4.56 - print("my dog weighs %f", the_weight) + print("my cat weighs %f", the_weight) I'm sure these are very contrived examples, but it's the smallest one I could whip up offhand