Re: Stacked GIT 0.1 (a.k.a. quilt for git)

From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Date: Jun 24, 2005, 10:47 UTC
Message-ID: <20050624034743.6c3bdae4.pj@sgi.com>
In-Reply-To: <tnxd5qc6s5o.fsf@arm.com>

> it should at least
> check whether the commit message was modified.

I suspect not.

Beware that quilt has tended toward the philosophy of doing just what you said, with no more, perhaps less than, the minimum critical consistency checking. If you tried to shoot you foot off with it, it shot your foot off, quickly.

If I try to make a change without a meaninguful log entry, what business of stgit is that? And it certainly should not leave the tree in some unspecified, inconsistent state without prior warning on account of such.

Don't add inessential sanity checks on user input. It won't sell well to the "quilt replacement" market.

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