On Friday, 14 March 2014 at 12:23:01 UTC, Manu wrote:
Because Walter is acutely allergic to the idea of a tool that
modifies your
source code. I might also have uncommitted changes, and not
particularly
feel like stashing them for the moment (less easy in other
VCS's).
I might also not want to apply all the changes, only some of
them. Surely
it's easier to merge the ones I want after visual approval,
than reverting
the ones I don't want after having gone to the effort of
stashing my local
changes to make a clean slate to work with...
It is a problem with your VCS workflow, not the imaginary tool.
Having any sort of uncommitted changes other than during active
editing goes against idea of DVCS.