From: Catalin Marinas Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 22:32:50 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] Use a separate directory for patches under each branch subdir Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <438E2797.2020205@citi.umich.edu> On 30/11/05, Chuck Lever wrote: > Catalin Marinas wrote: > > This patch doesn't fix the already created branches. It would be > > useful to upgrade the branch structure automatically if the patches > > directory is not found. > > the reason i didn't do that is because i wanted to allow older versions > of StGIT to continue to work on existing repositories. You are right. > what if i added a migration tool to allow a user to switch back and forth? A separate stg command for this would be useful. Anyway since the repository structure might change again in the future, I think it would be better to have a version string saved somewhere in .git/patches/version for reference. -- Catalin