On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 10:01:39PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 03:59:24PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote: ... > However, storing diffs is certainly a great way to interact with > legacy SCMs, and there are situations where guilt is certainly more > suited than stgit. Eg, on a project where you have to use CVS, and > you have to maintain changes to a Linux kernel, and you want to store > the history of a series of patches, guilt will be much easier to use > than stgit. Then there is the psychological effect. If I have a directory full of patch(1) compatible diff files, I can forget about guilt and just use the diff files directly. With stgit's way of storing the patches, I'd assume things can get a bit harder if you just want to give up on stgit. Btw, does git-prune & friends do the right thing and not destroy the patch-related objects? ... > Well, people may not like python, but IMHO it is a lot easier to learn > it if you don't know it (that's what I did, although I did not start > from zero), than writing a robust and maintainable software of even > moderate complexity in shell script. Shell script may be good for > prototyping or gluing tools in a simple way, but for advanced sofware > on which to rely to store my own data, it is just not really suited. So, why do you use git? ;) Josef "Jeff" Sipek. -- The box said "Windows XP or better required". So I installed Linux. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
