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Re: [HELP] Adding git awareness to the darning patch management system.

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PWPeter Williams <peter_ono@users.sourceforge.net>
Date
Nov 30, 2011, 23:47 UTC
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On 30/11/11 19:04, Tay Ray Chuan wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Peter Williams
> <peter_ono@users.sourceforge.net>  wrote:
>> I'm the author of the darning patch management system
>> <http://darning.sourceforge.net/>  and would like some help adding git
>> awareness to the system.  At this stage of the development, "awareness" is
>> fairly simple concept with two broad aims:
>
> That link says it "combines the strengths of quilt and mq and
> eliminates their weaknesses", but I don't see any info on why this is
> the case with your program;
Documenting this is on my todo list (but not at the top).

Quilt's weaknesses are documented on their website and my issues with MQ is that it (potentially) compromises the Mercurial repository and others to which it may push. (MQ also has the problem that its current maintainers don't understand the workflow for which it was designed and are changing it to suit a different workflow.)

The repository compromise issue also applies to stgit.
Other things darning adds are:
1. tracking of copies and renames (not in quilt),
2. tracking changes to files' modes (not in quilt),
3. binary diffs (using git binary diff format for import/export), and
4. help managing addition of trailing whitespace by patches.
> it would be great it if you could provide
> a quick start guide (probably easier to show this with some commands
> in the CLI rather than GUI screenshots).

At this stage, the CLI is really only there to allow me to do script based testing of darning's internals and is not a fully capable interface. However, if you look in the directory test-cli for files with a ".test" suffix you will find examples of their use.

>
> Have a look at StGit's tutorial
> http://www.procode.org/stgit/doc/tutorial.html (very similar to quilt
> and mq too) to see what I mean.
OK
Peter
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  6. Jeff KingDec 1, 2011
  7. Tay Ray ChuanNov 30, 2011
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