Re: StGit metadata grabbing with git clone

[Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org>]

Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> writes:

> Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> wrote:
>> I'm a happy user of stgit together with git to maintain a patch queue
>> while I or the company team is working on patches that will be send
>> for merging. Both works great but we're having troubles when we try to
>> clone a stgit repository.
>>
>> When I clone the repository it grab the source but it loses the
>> metadata. I would like to grab those too. Does anybody has a solution
>> or a trick how I can do that?
>
> Most of the StGIT metadata can be generated by "uncommit" (the reason
> I still keep a lot of this metadata like author etc. is for
> speed). However, I'm not sure how well this would work since you can
> nor synchronise the patches afterwards. StGIT works well for sharing
> patches via e-mail but you might want to consider topic branches
> instead of patches (though StGIT seems more convenient).
>
> Another idea is to export the patches (stg export) to a common place
> and import them in the other tree (stg import --series --replace). I
> could also add a --sync option to "import", instead of --replace,
> which would perform a three-way merge with the coresponding local
> patches so that it grabs any additional changes in both repositories
> or branches (similar to "pick --fold", option which I added for the
> same reason).
>
> Yet another idea is a "stg import" command for remote repositories or
> branches which would bring in the StGIT metadata.
>
> At the bottom of the TODO list is something that would solve this,
> only that I've never found the time to think about it properly. I work
> on several branches (and even separate trees) and share patches
> between them. It would be nice to be able to synchronise the changes
> to these patches.

That would be a really nice feature. Besides, would be nice to have a
way to plug something on clone and push git methods so you might send
all those metadata without much hassle.

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