Re: StGit question

From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Sep 12, 2008, 15:40 UTC
Message-ID: <20080912154036.GC31240@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <48CA6367.9020300@gmail.com>

On 2008-09-12 07:41:11 -0500, Clark Williams wrote:

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> Ahhhh, no I hadn't found this. Cool! I wonder if I could save the
> series in the branch, so that someone could just checkout the branch
> and do:
>
>   $ stg uncommit $(cat stg-series)

The patch stack log contains all the required info, so this should be doable (given that you share your <branchname>.stgit branch, which is the patch stack log).

> Or, maybe I'll look at adding a --series or --file option to
> uncommit?

Sure, that sounds like a good idea. I believe there are existing commands that take a series file argument; check what they call their flag.

> I suspect some chicken-and-egg problems here, but this is workable.
> And when you're talking >500 patches, anything you can do to
> automate is a wonderful thing :).

Nice to know StGit is being used with series of that size. I usually never go beyond about 30 myself, so there are certain types of scalability problems that I won't see.

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