From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:22:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] TopGit - A different patch queue manager
Message-ID: <20080804132251.GA12255@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910808030745j275eaffdib8a412fa95911bb3@mail.gmail.com>

On 2008-08-03 10:45:06 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:

> It is very helpful to block git commands that will mess up the state
> of topgit. For example 'git rebase' is a good way to mess up stgit.
> Instead you need to do 'stg rebase'. It is quite easy to type the
> wrong command when switching between trees and some are under stgit
> and others aren't.

Indeed. This is mitigated somewhat by the new "stg undo" command, but
it's still perhaps StGit's largest UI wart.

> I believe there is a stgit rewrite due any day now that completely
> changes how it deals with the index.

The master branch contains an infrastructure rewrite that makes it
easy to make the various commands handle the index nicely. A lot of
commands have been fixed to take advantage of it, but a bunch still
remain.

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