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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

I like the behavior of this patch, it seems a lot closer to how I'd expect
deleting wires to work. :)

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 08:49:09PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote:
> Hi jp,
> 
> On 19.05.2016 19:44, jp charras wrote:
> 
> > It could be worth to *clearly* explain in your patches what bug you want to fix, or what enhancement
> > you are adding.
> 
> Good point.
> 
> The last batch has two goals:
> 
> 1. fix a long-standing annoyance that deleting a line segment will
> delete the entire length of wire, even when I want to delete only a
> short piece. http://psi5.com/~geier/wires.ogv shows what I mean.
> 
> 2. prepare for net ties -- these need to split nets, so having code in
> place to split wires at certain points will have nice synergy effects.
> 
> For the most part, I've been posting these as a heads-up and RFC; if the
> benefit is obvious, it's fine to apply them, but I'm not unhappy if they
> aren't applied immediately, because I'm more interested in things that
> are obviously wrong or that I've overlooked, and my patch stack is
> rebased on top of the current state every time I update anyway.
> 
> "Serious" patch submissions start with a [PATCH 00/nn] mail that doesn't
> contain a patch and explains the rationale fully, and have longer
> descriptions in each separate patch (and incidentally, it'd be nice to
> keep those somehow).
> 
>    Simon
>