Comment by esafak

> > 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?

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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