Re: stgit 0.13 import mbox problems

From: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Date: Aug 23, 2007, 20:42 UTC
Message-ID: <20070823204202.GA10644@filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
In-Reply-To: <b0943d9e0708231336h3a92de22oc025c69b9209da9a@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:36:05PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:

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> On 23/08/07, Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> But guilt also generates a commit object when pushing a patch. Or am I wrong?

That's correct. But the git commit/tree/blob objects are a mere cache. For example, a refresh consists of:

git-update-index ... git-diff HEAD^ > patchfile git-reset --hard HEAD^ <internal push patch function - uses git-apply, git-{write,commit}-tree>

Josef 'Jeff' Sipek.

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