Re: hgmq vs. StGIT

On 01/11/05, Chris Mason [off-list ref] wrote:

I would suggest just putting the .git/patches directory under revision
control.

Putting them under a separate revisions repository, i.e. having a
.git/patches/,git directory? Otherwise there would be some problems
with the modified files automatically included in a patch.

More importantly, you can reuse gitk and all of the other history
functionality in the SCM.

Doing it the above way wouldn't be of much help with gitk. You would
get files like .git/patches/master/patchX/top etc. under revision
control which only contain some hash strings, not meaningful. With GIT
you have the advantage of being able to specify the DAG structure. It
is pretty simple to just link the commit objects corresponding to a
patch into a DAG and using gitk would allow you to navigate through
the history and also look at the diff itself.

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