Re: stgit 0.13 import mbox problems

From: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Date: Aug 23, 2007, 18:56 UTC
Message-ID: <20070823185608.GC1608@filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20070823184758.GB17601@kroah.com>

On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 11:47:58AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:

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> On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 02:06:33PM -0400, Josef Sipek wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 02:22:54AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I wanted to see if I could start using stgit instead of quilt, so I
> > > tried to import my current set of kernel patches.
> >  
> > May I suggest you give guilt [1,2] a spin? It uses the same quilt-like
> > patch directory format so things should Just Work(tm).
> 
> Nice, I didn't realize this was still being worked on.
> 
> Hm, is there an "easy" way to take a current tree of quilt patches
> (like, say 177 of them) and import them into guilt?  After reading the
> guilt documentation I didn't see a way to do it, but I might have missed
> something.

 
cd gregkh-2.6/
git-checkout master
guilt-init
rm -rf .git/patches/master/
mv quilts-patches-dir/ .git/patches/master/
guilt-series # tada!

> Also, this looks exactly like stgit in a way, can anyone point me at the
> differences, or is this just two different projects being done by two
> different groups/people to do the same thing?  If so, that's fine, just
> curious.

Yep. Two different projects taking different approaches to storing the patches. I go with the plaintext diff approach ala quilt, while stgit uses git objects to store the data.

Josef 'Jeff' Sipek.

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