Re: [TopGit] Multiple concurrent sets of patches

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On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 02:03:16PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:

also sprach Jonas Smedegaard [off-list ref] [2009.03.03.1237 +0100]:

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It seems to me that TopGit is incapable of handling this. That it can 
only handle patchset against a single branch, and if the need arise 
for restructuring an additional patchset for e.g. a stable or 
oldstable branch, then quilt needs to be used manually anyway.

Let me try to understand you: you want TopGit to maintain a single
feature branch against two different source branches? How should
that work? Could you elaborate a bit so that your needs become a bit
more obvious?

Not quite. I want TopGit to maintain multiple feature branches, 
preferrably related.

With "related" I mean that I would like to be able to "fork" a chain of 
interdependent feature branches.

TopGit easily support one chain of branches:

upstream + pristine-tar -> master -> build

I want TopGit to additionally support the following:

upstream + pristine-tar -> stable-master -> stable-build

upstream + pristine-tar -> oldstable-master -> oldstable-build


E.g. in addition to TopGit branches t/fix_01 and t/feature_01 I would 
want to fork those branches as t_stable/fix_01 and t_stable/feature_01.


I know that I can create all those TopGit branches one by one, but I 
would then need to explicitly declare a list of TopGit branches to apply 
each time I want to (re)generate a quilt patchlist.


Perhaps what I really am looking for here is something like "tg tag":

    git checkout t/fix_01
    tg tag t/fix_01 master
    git checkout -b t_stable/fix_01 t/fix_01
    tg tag -d master
    tg tag stable
    git checkout stable_build
    ./debian/rules tg-export tags=stable


...or perhaps this is not relevant upstream to TopGit at all but only to 
your packaging of a "tg-export" rule?


    - Jonas

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