Re: [ANNOUNCE] pg - A patch porcelain for GIT

> On 2006-02-14 09:26:41 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> 
> 
>>Another thing that's missing in StGIT is the import of a series of
>>patches. At the moment I run a small shell script to import
>>individual patches.
> 
> 
> One thing I would like to see in stgit is the opposite of "stg
> commit"; instead of converting patches to regular commits, take the
> topmost regular commits and convert them to patches.
> 
> For example, "stg uncommit foo bar baz" would -- regardless of any
> existing patches, applied or not -- convert the top three regular
> commits, with comments and all, to stgit patches called foo, bar, and
> baz. These would be already applied, at the bottom of the stack. I
> imagine all one would have to do is to modify some stgit metadata, so
> the operation could be really cheap.
> 
> Of course, "stg uncommit" is allowed to reject any commit with more
> than one parent, since those can't be represented as stgit patches.
> 
> This would perhaps not add much power to an all-stgit workflow, but it
> would be a really convenient way to edit recent git history. Sort of
> like a more convenient rebase. And a great way to lure new users. :-)