Slightly off-topic, but relevant to ODP development and something we just
discussed in the arch hangout.  But this captures the problem I was trying
to articulate.  I'd appreciate thoughts and recommendations for best
practices as to how to deal with this.

Say I have a repository with a master branch that consists of a set of
files with their own commit histories.

Now assume that I'm given another set of files that differ from some subset
of the master files in varying ways.  How these files came to be is not
relevant to this question.

If I do a diff between the master and the new files what I'd have is a
single patch that transforms the master files into new versions that
reflect the new files, however this patch may be too large to be
conveniently reviewed/digested.

So the question is this.  How can I best reorganize this single large patch
into a series of orthogonal patches that can be submitted against the
master that combined produce the same results as the original giant patch?

I believe this scenario captures the essence of the problem Ola and I were
trying to articulate.

Thanks for any insights and tool suggestions for this.

Bill
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