Re: [StGit RFC] A more structured way of calling git

From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 3, 2007, 10:56 UTC
Message-ID: <b0943d9e0711030356j4dcd31cbl54d838107240b3d0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071026192418.GA19774@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>

On 26/10/2007, Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> wrote:

> I wanted to build an StGit command that coalesced adjacent patches to
> a single patch. Because the end result tree would still be the same,
> this should be doable without ever involving HEAD, the index, or the
> worktree.

Wouldn't HEAD need to be modified since the commit log changes slightly, even though the tree is the same. Or am I misunderstanding this?

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> StGit's existing infrastructure for manipulating patches
> didn't lend itself to doing this kind of thing, though: it's not
> modular enough. So I started to design a replacement low-level
> interface to git, and things got slightly out of hand ... and I ended
> up with a much bigger refactoring than I'd planned.

Thanks for this. I'll need a bit of time to read it all and give feedback. In general, I welcome this refactoring.

I'll go through the whole e-mail in the next days and get back to you.

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Catalin