From: Catalin Marinas Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:54:35 GMT Subject: Re: StGIT vs. guilt: What's the difference? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20070617035923.GI7025@filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> On 17/06/07, Josef Sipek wrote: > Then there is the psychological effect. If I have a directory full of > patch(1) compatible diff files, I can forget about guilt and just use the > diff files directly. With stgit's way of storing the patches, I'd assume > things can get a bit harder if you just want to give up on stgit. I do this a lot to refine patches but I export the patch and re-import it (I can even merge it with the old version using 'stg fold --threeway' and it will prompt me for the differences via xxdiff or emacs). > Btw, does git-prune & friends do the right thing and not destroy the > patch-related objects? StGIT patches are git-prune safe. The commit ids are stored in .git/refs/patches. > > Well, people may not like python, but IMHO it is a lot easier to learn > > it if you don't know it (that's what I did, although I did not start > > from zero), than writing a robust and maintainable software of even > > moderate complexity in shell script. Shell script may be good for > > prototyping or gluing tools in a simple way, but for advanced sofware > > on which to rely to store my own data, it is just not really suited. > > So, why do you use git? ;) Well, I guess he's mostly using StGIT which uses only the built-in GIT commands written in C :-). -- Catalin