Compiler updating user code

[Dicebot]

On Friday, 14 March 2014 at 12:23:01 UTC, Manu wrote:
> Because Walter is acutely allergic to the idea of a tool that 
> modifies your
> source code. I might also have uncommitted changes, and not 
> particularly
> feel like stashing them for the moment (less easy in other 
> VCS's).
> I might also not want to apply all the changes, only some of 
> them. Surely
> it's easier to merge the ones I want after visual approval, 
> than reverting
> the ones I don't want after having gone to the effort of 
> stashing my local
> changes to make a clean slate to work with...

It is a problem with your VCS workflow, not the imaginary tool. 
Having any sort of uncommitted changes other than during active 
editing goes against idea of DVCS.