Re: stgit: premerge hooks and preventing errors

From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Jan 25, 2008, 08:43 UTC
Message-ID: <20080125084328.GB5804@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910801241232j58974193i5ec0a618376c2415@mail.gmail.com>

On 2008-01-24 15:32:40 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:

> What's the status of using premerge hooks to stop git merge/pull
> from messing up stgit? I just messed up another stgit tree by doing
> git pull on it. I've learned how to fix this by rolling back the
> head, but this mistake is way too easy to make.

I decided that while such hooks would be useful, it'd be even more useful to have "stg undo" which could undo every kind of mistake, including this one -- so I decided to build "stg undo" first. And I still haven't quite started. :-) I do have the design more or less finished, though.

> Even though I'm aware that this mistake is possible and I'm still
> making it. When you have a mix of git and stgit trees it is very
> easy to forget which one you are on.

Very true.

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