Re: Collection of stgit issues and wishes

From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 10, 2006, 22:26 UTC
Message-ID: <b0943d9e0612101426l763d46cahe15683410cb4398d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200612101801.58247.jnareb@gmail.com>

On 10/12/06, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > On 10/12/06, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> Here are some issues which are a bit annoying for me:
> >>>> - make "stg help" (without command name) equivalent to "stg --help"
> >
> > There was a patch in this area. Doesn't it work correctly now?
>
> I use stgit 0.11

I was in general referring to the latest HEAD in the StGIT repository.

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> 1056:[gitweb/web!git]$ stg help
> usage: stg help <command>
>
> while "stg --help" lists all commands.

Works correctly in the latest snapshot.

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> >> And as far as I can see it doe not use git credentials (user.name and
> >> user.email).
> >
> > StGIT now uses the GIT credentials (and config files).
>
> Hmmm... in stgit 0.11 "stg refresh --sign" once gave me Signed-off-by:
> Nobody line instead of using git user.name and user.email.

Again, it is different in the latest snapshot (feature added post 0.11).

> The git commands StGit uses to perform operations automatically record
> changes in branches in reflog. What StGit does not provide is the "reason".
> You do use git-update-ref?

Yes, only for updating HEAD. The refs in refs/patches/<branch>/ are written directly. I initialy wanted to add patch history support using reflogs and added "git-update-ref -m ..." for the patch commits but I found slow the pushing operation a bit. Do you only want to track the reflogs for HEAD?