A possible way is (where file.cpp is the file that you want to commit)

# make a copy of the whole directory first (to have a backup)
mv file.cpp file.cpp.new
cvs update file.cpp
diff -u file.cpp file.cpp.new > patch.txt
# edit your patch file patch.txt. Unified diff hunks starts with @@, you can
#  remove the hunks that you do not want to commit.
patch --verbose --backup file.cpp < patch.txt
# check with an editor the file to see that it is really what you want.
# Another possibility for checking is to do "diff -u file.cpp.orig file.cpp"
cvs commit file.cpp


If you want to work on more than a file at a time, you can aslo do it with 
this method, either file by file or doing each step for all files. In any 
case, you need only to commit one time in this case.

***

If you really want to it one directory (dir) at a time, you can do:

# start from the parent directory of dir
mv dir dir.new
cvs update dir
diff -u dir dir.new > patch.txt
# edit your patch
cd dir
patch --verbose -p1 < ../patch.txt
# check the result
cvs commit
cd ..

Have a nice day/evening/night!

On Dienstag, 27. August 2002 22:52, Norbert Andres wrote:
> Ok, I did it.
>
> General question: can I commit just parts of a patch? How? (diff/patch are
> not my friends yet - Kompare is no real help for applying patches (or I'm
> just not clever enough :-))
>
> On Tuesday 27 August 2002 09:34, Ariya Hidayat wrote:
> > Norbert, did you commit already ? This will fix bug #46941.
> >
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