Clark, What version of StGIT are you using? You might use a too new GIT with an older StGIT or maybe there are just some bugs in StGIT. On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 09:19 -0500, Clark Williams wrote: > I've been working on the -rt patch series for the kernel and would like to to use > StGit to manage the patches. Unfortunately I've had limited success, so I thought I'd > ask the git/stgit community if what I'm doing is wrong. > > I clone Linus's tree to a common directory, then clone it locally to work: > > $ git clone -s -l /home/src/linux-2.6.git scratch.git > $ cd scratch.git > $ stg init > $ stg branch --create rt-2.6.23-rc8-rt1 v2.6.23-rc8 > $ stg import --series --ignore --replace ../sources/patch-queue-2.6.23-rc8-rt1/series > <fix the things quilt lets through and stg barfs on, like malformed email addresses> If git-quiltimport behaves better with malformed patches, use it and run 'stg uncommit -n 368' afterwards (the 'uncommit' takes some other useful options as well, see --help). > <watch 368 patches be applied and committed> > <work work work> Do you modify any of the -rt patches or you create new ones? > <get a new patch queue> > $ (cd /home/src/linux-2.6.git && git pull) > $ stg pull > $ stg branch --create rt-2.6.23-rc8-rt1 v2.6.23-rc9 > $ stg import --series --ignore --replace ../sources/patch-queue-2.6.23-rc9-rt1/series > Checking for changes in the working directory ... done > stg import: env git-commit-tree 520b9d0db6a1142271a68b2b38cca002be40f6cb -p > da0a81e98c06aa0d1e05b9012c2b2facb1807e12 failed (fatal: > da0a81e98c06aa0d1e05b9012c2b2facb1807e12 is not a valid 'commit' object) I'm not sure why the first import worked. It seems that StGIT uses the tag id (da0a81e9) rather than the corresponding commit id (3146b39c). I remember having this problem in the past when creating branches and I fixed StGIT to always get the corresponding commit id. Using 'v2.6.23-rc9^{commit}' as the 'branch' argument rather than just the tag should fix the problem. > At this point I'm clueless as to: > > 1. What I've done wrong Probably nothing (just hidden features of StGIT :-)) > 2. How to recover/debug this You can recreate the branch with the commit rather than tag id. With a sufficiently new StGIT, you could use 'stg rebase <id>' on the branch. I assume that no patch was pushed because import failed (though the first imported patch might be in an undefined state and can be removed). Catalin - 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