From: Karl Wiberg <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 17:14:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [StGit PATCH] edit: Allow setting git tree SHA1 of a patch
Message-ID: <AANLkTimBSc35cnmRgDMDhQKtXC2PchcrSGHxMBcBMtuG@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100516172738.5043.94039.stgit@localhost.localdomain>

2010/5/16 Gustav Hållberg <gustav@gmail.com>:
> I would like to have something similar to this patch, which allows for
> setting the (git) tree of a particular patch. I would like to use it
> (from the Emacs mode) to make it easier to split an old patch into two
> (or more).
>
> It might be that this is too "powerful" (read: unsafe), and maybe a
> better (safer) command would use whatever is currently in the index
> rather than a SHA1.

I think this is a reasonable idea. (Note that for unapplied
patches---or any patch that we can pop---the notion of setting the
bottom tree makes sense too. pick can currently create a patch from a
given commit; it might be reasonable to teach it (or stg new) to take
two trees instead.)

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