From: Chuck Lever Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:29:37 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] GIT commit statistics. Message-ID: <4379FEE1.9080407@citi.umich.edu> In-Reply-To: Catalin Marinas wrote: > On 12/11/05, Petr Baudis wrote: > >>On the same note, I would like StGIT to drop functionality not really >>belonging to patch stack manager (stg add, stg rm, stg status, ...) so >>that its commandset gets smaller and more focused > > > This was the case with the first StGIT implementations but I slowly > began to want to only use StGIT and not switch to something else for > trivial SCM operations. I eventually added 'stg commit' which stores > the patches permanently into the base of the stack to enable some kind > of maintainer mode for StGIT. My main use for this was to import > patches directly into the main branch and not keep a separate one and > pull between them. ... > Anyway, while I'll try not to add more SCM functionality to StGIT, I > don't think I should remove the existing add/rm/status functionality. > It's just handy not to use a different command when you want a new > file added to a patch. petr, currently it isn't recommended to use StGIT with other porcelains. so either: make it completely safe to use StGIT with other porcelains, or add a minimal amount of SCM-like functionality so users don't miss it and try to use other porcelains and trash their repositories. overall i agree with catalin-- it's just easier to use a single tool. begin:vcard fn:Chuck Lever n:Lever;Charles org:Network Appliance, Incorporated;Linux NFS Client Development adr:535 West William Street, Suite 3100;;Center for Information Technology Integration;Ann Arbor;MI;48103-4943;USA email;internet:cel@citi.umich.edu title:Member of Technical Staff tel;work:+1 734 763-4415 tel;fax:+1 734 763 4434 tel;home:+1 734 668-1089 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.monkey.org/~cel/ version:2.1 end:vcard