Re: Tool/Scripts - For maintaining different branches on a repo

From: Jagan Teki <jagannadh.teki@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 27, 2014, 06:27 UTC
Message-ID: <CAD6G_RQ9KpW4i5BPRNrSWmR5oZn0eAZsvM4S_erCXx0+Y7Oj2Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140620223047.GB856079@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net>

On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 4:00 AM, brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote:

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> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 04:18:22PM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a single repo with different kinds of branches say 4 branches.
>> Developers will send a patches wrt to specific branch.
>
> I presume here that you're referring to emailed patches, or patches in
> independent files, as opposed to just having branches with commits.

Let me clear my requirement:

I'm using Thunderbird, the tool will pick the patches with _defined_ subject prefix and apply the respective branches as I inputting.

Please let me know if you still have any clarity.

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>> Is there any opensource tool/script that does applying patches/maintaining
>> the branches in repo w/o manual intervention?
>
> If you want something that works with patches specifically, TopGit might
> do what you want.  If what you're looking for is a tool that accepts
> patches and automatically applies them, I'm not aware of one.  It
> shouldn't be terribly difficult to script, though.
>
> If you don't need to deal with patches and can instead deal with git
> repositories, GitLab and Gitorious offer merge requests, which might
> make life easier.  I have heard that GitLab is less painful to set up.
>
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thanks!

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Jagan.