Re: hgmq vs. StGIT

> A night city, the snow slowly falling. Approaching the roofs covered in
> white and illuminated by the yellow street lighting, dark windows - but
> one dimly glowing, a computer screen inside. Close-up on a hacker:
> $EDITOR opened, lost deep in hack mode, fingers dancing over the
> keyboard.  Dreamy-monumental music in the background.
> 
> StGIT user, only part of the patches in stack, and the rest depends on
> the one currently edited, and I want to record my work on this one.
> I can either:

> (i) Just keep per-patch history only.
> 
> (ii) Keep _both_ per-patch and per-stack history (since I don't want to
> record the stack when I have to keep some patches out of it - the
> history would look like randomly removing and adding tons of patches,
> and jumping around would be difficult because of this too).
> 
> (iii) Keep per-patchlist history - do not actually record only our
> current stack, but all the patches StGIT knows about. The patches
> depending on the one currently being changed will not be in consistent
> state, but that's tough. Actually, this seems to be the most viable
> strategy. One question is whether to record if some patch is actually
> applied right now or not (I'd say don't record it since you again have
> the "bouncing problem" otherwise).