Re: Merging commits together into a super-commit

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 12, 2007, 19:27 UTC
Message-ID: <7vy7jtyh8q.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070512144145.GF16903@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net>

Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> writes:

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> On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 04:02:28PM +0200, Karl Hasselström wrote:
>> ...
>> What we should do is delete all stgit metadata when the last patch
>> goes away.
>
> This supposes there is no valuable branch-level metadata.  Currently
> we have the description - something which could arguably be moved to
> the git level as well.  Otherwise that sounds reasonable to me.

Will it be something like

	[branch "master"]
        	description = "My primary development line"

if so I think that is a reasonable thing to do, from git-core's point of view. Obviously, gitk, tig, gitweb and friends can use this, too.

Are there other per-branch information StGIT wants to keep on an active branch that might benefit the core as well?

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>> And we shouldn't have "stg init", either. Initing should be done
>> automatically when needed.
>
> Good idea as well, that would make stg more accessible to the average
> plain-git user.

Yes, I wished for this often myself.