From: Karl Hasselström Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:40:03 GMT Subject: Re: [StGit RFC] A more structured way of calling git Message-ID: <20071104184003.GB6032@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20071103142851.GG26436@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net> On 2007-11-03 15:28:51 +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > This reminds me of someone suggesting that some patches could be > represented by more than one commit. You might be remebering me pointing out that the old infrastructure supported (or at least not directly disallowed) this. > But I'm not sure such a beast would be useful - I fear that would > make StGIT much more complicated, but would it really make things > better? Yes, it makes everything much more complicated, and no, it doesn't buy us anything new. After all, once we know the parent and the tree we want a patch to have, we can just manufacture a commit that has that tree and that parent. My proposed new infrastructure cannot represent such patches, very much by design. -- Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com www.treskal.com/kalle