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Re: StGIT vs. guilt: What's the difference?

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Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date
Jun 15, 2007, 03:05 UTC
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On 2007-06-14 14:55:54 -0700, Steven Grimm wrote:
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> I've asked this on IRC a couple times and nobody seemed to have a
> good answer, so: These two tools seem like they are solving the same
> general problem using similar approaches. They are both under active
> development. In what areas is each of them stronger than the other?
> Why would one choose to use one of them instead of the other?

I have never had a close look at guilt, but from what I remember it stores patches as plain old plaintext patches (corrections to this statement welcome). StGIT uses git's object database.

I doubt there's anything that one model can handle that the other cannot; the question is whether the two _implementations_ are feature equivalent or not. And I can't answer that, since I know too little about guilt.

I'm guessing guilt's creator might be a bit more qualified to answer; from what I recall, he looked at StGIT, but decided to build his own tool because StGIT did not meet his requirements.

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Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle
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