Re: How is git used as other than the project's version control?

Jeff King wrote:

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 06:55:38PM -0400, John Dlugosz wrote:

quoted

I'm interested in finding out how people use git "on the side", when it
is not the project's actual version control system.

One of the nice things about git (and other distributed VCS's) is that
creating a repo is very lightweight. If I am going to write a patch for
some other software, the first thing I'll do after untarring it is "git
init; git add .; git commit -m import". So it kind of blurs the concept
of "what is the project's actual version control system" as you wrote
above. If you consider the project to be my patch, it _is_ the VCS. Even
though upstream may not be using it.

This...

And of course, if I am going to do multiple patches, then I may convert
and track upstream's history via git.

... although I usually *always* do this, even if it's only one patch.

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