Re: Ext4 Patch Queue using stgit.

["Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 18:12 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I was looking at ext4 patch queue and was wondering why we are  putting 
>> .patch under git. If we are looking for a quilt like functionality, one 
>> can achieve the same using stgit. I was using stgit to maintain a set of
>> patches before. So if you look at
>>
>> http://git.openssi.org/~kvaneesh/gitweb.cgi?p=ci-to-linus.git;a=summary
>>
>> you will see the patches i was working on with linus tree as from-linus. 
>> Now to find out what changes were made to these patches during the 
>> development one can look at the tracking branch. In the above case the 
>> latest tracking branch was 2.6.20-rc1-ci-to-linus
>>
>> http://git.openssi.org/~kvaneesh/gitweb.cgi?h=2.6.20-rc1-ci-to-linus;p=ci-to-linus.git;a=shortlog
>>
>> Other tracking branches at different development stages can be found at
>> http://git.openssi.org/~kvaneesh/gitweb.cgi?p=ci-to-linus.git;a=heads
>>
>>
>> This make looking at the diff much easier. diff of .patch does seems to 
>> be useful.
> 
> Does _not_ seem to be useful?
> 

yes. that was a typo

> I agree that I find the current setup a little awkward.  The git tree
> isn't something we can point Andrew or Linus to.  It has to be extracted
> to another place for that.  We really should have some of these patches
> in mainline by now, and that's not getting done.
> 
> I haven't looked at stgit, so I don't have an opinion on using it as an
> alternative, but I'm open to the idea.
> 
>> Only problem i can think of is how multiple people will push to the same 
>> repo.
> 
> If we continue to host on repo.or.cz, Ted can allow anyone he wants to
> push to the tree.
> 



The problem is stgit management of git repo is local to the user. That 
means the stgit commands like push, pop and refresh works on local repo. 
  I am not sure how easily this mode of operation can be replicated 
across different user. There will be a slight overhead on each developer 
side when somebody else does a git push and later the developer does a 
pull. He/she will have to update the patcheset that is being managed by 
stgit by hand.


-aneesh