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Re: [PATCH 7/7] Use a separate directory for patches under each branch subdir

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CLChuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu>
Date
Nov 30, 2005, 22:28 UTC
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Catalin Marinas wrote:
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> On 29/11/05, Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com> wrote:
> 
>>Currently you can't specify a patch name that matches the name of one of
>>the stgit special files under .git/patches/<branch-name>.  Let's use a
>>new subdirectory under .git/patches/<branch-name> to contain just the
>>patch directories to remove this limitation.
> 
> 
> This patch doesn't fix the already created branches. It would be
> useful to upgrade the branch structure automatically if the patches
> directory is not found.

the reason i didn't do that is because i wanted to allow older versions of StGIT to continue to work on existing repositories.

what if i added a migration tool to allow a user to switch back and forth?

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Message 13 of 16 in “[PATCH 0/7]”
  1. 0/7 Chuck Lever, Nov 29, 2005
  2. 1/7 Make "stg export" save the base commit in the output directoryChuck Lever, Nov 29, 2005
  3. Catalin MarinasNov 30, 2005
  4. 2/7 Use git-rev-parse to find the local GIT repositoryChuck Lever, Nov 29, 2005
  5. 3/7 Align branch descriptions in output of "stg branch -l"Chuck Lever, Nov 29, 2005
  6. 4/7 "stg series" option to show patch summary descriptionsChuck Lever, Nov 29, 2005
  7. 5/7 Add facility to print short list of patches around 'top'Chuck Lever, Nov 29, 2005
  8. 6/7 Add a "--clone" option to "stg branch"Chuck Lever, Nov 29, 2005
  9. Catalin MarinasDec 1, 2005
  10. Chuck LeverDec 1, 2005
  11. 7/7 Use a separate directory for patches under each branch subdirChuck Lever, Nov 29, 2005
  12. Catalin MarinasNov 30, 2005
  13. Chuck LeverNov 30, 2005
  14. Catalin MarinasNov 30, 2005
  15. Chuck LeverDec 1, 2005
  16. Catalin MarinasNov 30, 2005

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