Re: Collection of stgit issues and wishes

On 10/12/06, Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] wrote:

Catalin Marinas wrote:

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Yes, only for updating HEAD. The refs in refs/patches/<branch>/ are
written directly. I initialy wanted to add patch history support using
reflogs and added "git-update-ref -m ..." for the patch commits but I
found slow the pushing operation a bit. Do you only want to track the
reflogs for HEAD?

Yes, I want for StGit to provide reasons when updating HEAD. I know that
StGit manages it's own versioning of patches not using reflog -- fine.
What matters for me is reflog for HEAD after "stg commit; stg clean".

Just curious, do you run the "stg commit; stg clean" commands together
and in this order? Neither of them would update the HEAD. The "commit"
command simply removes the StGIT metadata for the applied patches
since it no longer needs to track them (permanently stored to the
repository). It doesn't change HEAD. The "clean" command only affects
the HEAD if there are empty applied patches but after a "commit" there
won't be any patches (only the unapplied ones which do not affect
HEAD).

Maybe we could have reflog info for "push", "refresh", some undo
operations. Are they of any use (I haven't used them so I can't tell)?

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