# PRs and granularity **URL:** \ **Category:** Development\ **Created:** [24.Август.2016 19:02:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prs-and-granularity/49162 "2016-08-24T19:02:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\ **Post date:** [24.Август.2016 19:02:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prs-and-granularity/49162/1 "2016-08-24T19:02:31Z")
Say, hypothetically, after several days of ugly hacking, I’ve made a bunch of elegant changes to `mbox.rb` . Things like - BUG: make topic post be the first message in thread rather than the last - FEATURE: replace email addresses in posts with @username - UX: made it clearer where the script looks for files - UX: improved error checking and reporting - FEATURE: added gsubs to “correct” bogus email addresses (to probably wrong, but legal addresses) - FEATURE: add optional code to import user bios from external database - FIX: remove only [LISTNAME] from Subjects, not all [bracketed text] - FEATURE: set default trust\_level on imported users (Whether comments and top-of-file constants are UX is debatable.) These are all in a separate branch with a bunch of commits, some of which actually have descriptive commit strings and changed something small. I still need to pull back out stuff that doesn’t belong in core (e.g., gsubs that fixed address problems in only my data set). All of the changes are in a single file (plus maybe one or two to` base.rb`) and this is just an import script, not affecting installed instances. What do I do now? Return to master and retrace my steps to add in pieces to individual branches as if I knew what I was doing when I started? Submit the whole thing and let someone else sort it out? Something in between? Is there some git magic that would make the process easier? --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prs-and-granularity/49162)._