From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 01:02:43 GMT
Subject: Re: git versus CVS (versus bk)
Message-ID: <46a038f90510311702wfb43281rf4464a02e8e3be2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20051101004255.GQ11488@ca-server1.us.oracle.com>

On 11/1/05, Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com> wrote:
> > is possible) offhand.  Sometimes, when you want truly logical
> > steps, you would end up needing intermediate steps that never
> > existed in your true history (i.e. "in the hindsight, my
> > development should have progressed in these steps.")
>
>         Yes, I always do.  But I'm not talking about that sort of large
> feature add or whatever.  I'm talking about merely doing something on a
> small scale, but in a temporary repository.

I'm really surprised that Calalin hasn't chimed in. If you are into
rewriting/merging/splitting your patches, StGIT is your friend. Check
out:  http://www.procode.org/stgit/

cheers,


martin