Re: StGIT (or guilt) + git-svn?
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 08:19:23PM +0800, Steven Grimm wrote:
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> Steven Walter wrote:
> >That said, I'm not sure that stgit will help you with "local versioning"
> >of files (I'm not even sure what you mean). Perhaps you can elaborate
> >on this point.
> >
>
> He wants to create some files in his git-svn clone and use git to manage
> them -- checkpointing his work in progress, backing out changes, etc.,
> without publishing those files to the svn repository. The files in
> question are not already in svn. But he does want to work on other files
> that *are* in the svn repository, and wants those changes to be
> committed back.
>
> So my assumption was that he would do something like maintain his
> local-only changes as StGIT patches that never get committed to git. His
> other changes would get committed from StGIT to git, and from there he'd
> do his normal git-svn dcommit. Or maybe git-svn dcommit followed by stg
> rebase since git-svn dcommit creates new revision IDs.
>
> In any event, now that I know it's working successfully for at least one
> person, I'll point him to stg and he can play with it a bit. Didn't want
> to lead him into a dead end. Thanks!
If I understand your scenario correctly, guilt will work just as well.
Josef 'Jeff' Sipek.
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