Re: [QGIT RFC] Unit tests for QGit

> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> wrote:
> > StGit has no per-repo data. It's all per-branch. "stg init" operates
> > on the current branch, not the whole repo.
> 
> Ok. Thanks. In this case the check qgit does is broken, and I think
> not only that because I never had this point clear while developing
> the interface.
> 
> > Hmm. For me, "stg branch" succeeds even if "stg init" has not yet been
> > run (which is arguably as it should be, since it doesn't require that
> > stg init has been run in the current branch). "stg series" or
> > something is probably better for this purpose.

> But if I run 'stg branch' in a git-only repo this gives an error. This
> conditions, at least until now, has always been working for me.
> 
> 
> > Though if you're concerned about speed (as the comment indicates), you
> > should probably do something cheaper than running stg, such as
> > checking if .git/patches/<branchname> exists.
> >
> 
> Actually the actual code chunk is:
> 
>         // check for a StGIT stack
>          QDir d = gitDir;
> 
>          if (d.exists("patches")) { // early skip
> 
>                  isStGIT = run("stg branch", &stgCurBranch); // slow command
> 
>                  stgCurBranch = stgCurBranch.trimmed();
>          } else
>                  isStGIT = false;