More explicit edit features

[adiroiban]

Hi,

At the first read of README I was not sure if git-meld will also apply changes for working dir. This is a great feature.

Maybe the usage line can be updated to:

git meld uses "git diff --name-only" to extract the files that have changed between the two commits and then makes a copy of these files into a temporary directory before invoking meld on these copies. At exit, files modified in the temporary directory for working_dir are applied to the actual working folder.

Thanks for the great tool!

[wmanley]

I'm afraid this would be inaccurate. Git meld uses symlinks such that when you are editing a file in your working directory in meld you are actually editing the files in your working directory (e.g. no copying back happens)

[adiroiban]

Hi,

Thanks for the update.

What do you say about this description:

git meld uses "git diff --name-only" to extract the files that have changed between the two commits and then makes a copy of these files into a temporary directory before invoking meld on these copies.

The files from current working folder are symlinked into the the temporary folder, so any changes performed on these files are automatically saved. All other files are copied in the temporary folder with read only permissions.

Thanks