[openib-general] userspace git trees

[Sasha Khapyorsky]

On 12:50 Thu 14 Dec     , Roland Dreier wrote:
>  > > How do you get the equivalent of
>  > > 
>  > >     stg pop
>  > >     edit patch
>  > >     stg refresh
>  > >     stg push
>  > > 
>  > > with core git?
>  > 
>  >   git-reset HEAD^
>  >   edit patch
>  >   git-commit -c ORIG_HEAD
>  > 
>  > I think there is also 'git-commit --amend', but didn't use it yet.
> 
> I don't think either of those is really equivalent.  You can edit the
> commit at the end of your current branch, but there's no convenient
> analog of stg pop/stg push.

In the "worst" case - git-format-patch/git-am always help.

> Of course stgit is implemented on top of core git so you can
> reimplement it by hand, but I do think there is value in the stgit porcelain.

Sure. I have nothing against stgit, it is nice tool and I used this
successfully couple of months (and switched not because stgit was bad
but because was needed to deal with core git for other stuff anyway).

Sasha