{"thread":{"id":"36965","subject":"Tool/Scripts - For maintaining different branches on a repo","startedAt":"2014-06-19T10:48:22Z","lastAt":"2014-06-27T06:27:51Z","messageCount":3,"participants":["Jagan Teki","brian m. carlson"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"244637","messageId":"CAD6G_RRxj_tHhiGxP+ehNMBewqveUbbGuLLxgnHjUt96WkC_xg@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"36965","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Tool/Scripts - For maintaining different branches on a repo","fromName":"Jagan Teki","fromEmail":"jagannadh.teki@gmail.com","sentAt":"2014-06-19T10:48:22Z","receivedAt":"2014-06-19T10:48:22Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"jagannadh.teki@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"Hi,\n\nI have a single repo with different kinds of branches say 4 branches.\nDevelopers will send a patches wrt to specific branch.\n\nIs there any opensource tool/script that does applying patches/maintaining\nthe branches in repo w/o manual intervention?\n\nthanks!\n-- \nJagan.\n"},{"id":"244820","messageId":"20140620223047.GB856079@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net","threadId":"36965","inReplyTo":"CAD6G_RRxj_tHhiGxP+ehNMBewqveUbbGuLLxgnHjUt96WkC_xg@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Tool/Scripts - For maintaining different branches on a repo","fromName":"brian m. carlson","fromEmail":"sandals@crustytoothpaste.net","sentAt":"2014-06-20T22:30:47Z","receivedAt":"2014-06-20T22:30:47Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"sandals@crustytoothpaste.net","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/497054?v=4"},"body":"On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 04:18:22PM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:\n> Hi,\n> \n> I have a single repo with different kinds of branches say 4 branches.\n> Developers will send a patches wrt to specific branch.\n\nI presume here that you're referring to emailed patches, or patches in\nindependent files, as opposed to just having branches with commits.\n\n> Is there any opensource tool/script that does applying patches/maintaining\n> the branches in repo w/o manual intervention?\n\nIf you want something that works with patches specifically, TopGit might\ndo what you want.  If what you're looking for is a tool that accepts\npatches and automatically applies them, I'm not aware of one.  It\nshouldn't be terribly difficult to script, though.\n\nIf you don't need to deal with patches and can instead deal with git\nrepositories, GitLab and Gitorious offer merge requests, which might\nmake life easier.  I have heard that GitLab is less painful to set up.\n\n-- \nbrian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US\n+1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only\nOpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187\n"},{"id":"245051","messageId":"CAD6G_RQ9KpW4i5BPRNrSWmR5oZn0eAZsvM4S_erCXx0+Y7Oj2Q@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"36965","inReplyTo":"20140620223047.GB856079@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net","subject":"Re: Tool/Scripts - For maintaining different branches on a repo","fromName":"Jagan Teki","fromEmail":"jagannadh.teki@gmail.com","sentAt":"2014-06-27T06:27:51Z","receivedAt":"2014-06-27T06:27:51Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"jagannadh.teki@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 4:00 AM, brian m. carlson\n<sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote:\n> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 04:18:22PM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:\n>> Hi,\n>>\n>> I have a single repo with different kinds of branches say 4 branches.\n>> Developers will send a patches wrt to specific branch.\n>\n> I presume here that you're referring to emailed patches, or patches in\n> independent files, as opposed to just having branches with commits.\n\nLet me clear my requirement:\n\nI'm using Thunderbird,  the tool will pick the patches with _defined_\nsubject prefix\nand apply the respective branches as I inputting.\n\nPlease let me know if you still have any clarity.\n\n>\n>> Is there any opensource tool/script that does applying patches/maintaining\n>> the branches in repo w/o manual intervention?\n>\n> If you want something that works with patches specifically, TopGit might\n> do what you want.  If what you're looking for is a tool that accepts\n> patches and automatically applies them, I'm not aware of one.  It\n> shouldn't be terribly difficult to script, though.\n>\n> If you don't need to deal with patches and can instead deal with git\n> repositories, GitLab and Gitorious offer merge requests, which might\n> make life easier.  I have heard that GitLab is less painful to set up.\n>\n> --\n> brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US\n> +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only\n> OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187\n\n\nthanks!\n-- \nJagan.\n"}]}