On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 02:38:58AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 01:50:10PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I was recently disappointed to learn that one of the Linux drivers > > (bcm43xx_mac80211, to be precise) switched from git to quilt. I asked > > whether StGIT was considered, a discussion followed, and I think the key > > points need to be shared with StGIT developers. I'll add some of my > > ideas to the mix. > > You might also ask them if they considered "guilt", which uses > text-based patches. It's a lot easier to use, and if they really want > quilt-like functionality, "guilt" will provide it. I guess I should chime in. The goal behind guilt is to be very simple yet powerful enough to do what is necessary to maintain a piece of kernel code (read: to scratch my own itch). > And because it's so stupid simple, it's much rarer that something goes > seriously wrong that requires me to use a recovery procedure in the > first place. Thanks! :) > Editing patch headers are also a lot easier with guilt; you can just > go ahead and edit them all, and then you can fresh them in git by > doing a "guilt pop -a; guilt push -a". Since it's not using a > git-based storage, it doesn't have to rewrite the whole patch stack > when you modify a single patch header; you can edit a whole bunch of > text headers and then refresh the git commit series just once. FYI: v0.27 allows you to edit the patch headers with: guilt header -e Pavel, if you have any questions, you know where to ask :) Josef 'Jeff' Sipek. -- Don't drink and derive. Alcohol and algebra don't mix. - 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
