On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Chris Mason wrote:

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Very true, you can't replace quilt with git without ruining both of them.  But
it would be nice to take a quilt tree and turn it into a git tree for merging
purposes, or to make use of whatever visualization tools might exist someday.

Fair enough. The thing is, going from quilt->git really is a pretty "big
decision", since it's the decision that says "I will now really commit all
this quilt changes forever and ever".

Which is also why I think it's actually ok to take a minute to do 100
quilt patches. This is not something you do on a whim. It's something
you'd better think about. It's turning a very fluid environment into a
unchangable, final thing.

what if you turned the forest of quilt patches into a forest of git trees? 
(essentially applying each patch against the baseline seperatly) would 
this make sense or be useful?

David Lang

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