Re: git versus CVS (versus bk)

On 11/1/05, Joel Becker [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

is possible) offhand.  Sometimes, when you want truly logical
steps, you would end up needing intermediate steps that never
existed in your true history (i.e. "in the hindsight, my
development should have progressed in these steps.")

        Yes, I always do.  But I'm not talking about that sort of large
feature add or whatever.  I'm talking about merely doing something on a
small scale, but in a temporary repository.

I'm really surprised that Calalin hasn't chimed in. If you are into
rewriting/merging/splitting your patches, StGIT is your friend. Check
out:  http://www.procode.org/stgit/

cheers,


martin