Re: Any way to edit the file in index directly?

[Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>]

Ping Yin



On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:10:41PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:03:03AM +0800, Ping Yin wrote:
>>
>> > There seems to be a patch for this ( add -e?), but i forget where to
>> > find it.
>>
>> "add -p" has an "e"dit option for editing the patch. I don't recall any
>> way of directly editing the content.
>

> "add -p" has an "e"dit option for editing the patch. I don't recall any
> way of directly editing the content.

Sometimes by 'add -p', i can't get what i want (the patch will fail to
apply when exiting editor). And with 'add -p', i can't get a global
view of all changes together

> I'm not sure what you mean by "alongside".

By "aloneside" i mean i can open the index and worktree file in diff
mode side by side for easily editing.

> Hmm, actually maybe you are thinking of:
>
>  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/103389
>
> which I even reviewed, but it doesn't seem to have gone anywhere after
> that.
>

Thanks, That's what i want.