From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Jackson Subject: Re: Stacked GIT 0.1 (a.k.a. quilt for git) Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 03:47:43 -0700 Organization: SGI Message-ID: <20050624034743.6c3bdae4.pj@sgi.com> References: <20050623175848.1cf41a52.pj@sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jun 24 12:42:47 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dllct-00062K-Ig for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:41:35 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263221AbVFXKrx (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2005 06:47:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263240AbVFXKrx (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2005 06:47:53 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:28805 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263221AbVFXKpn (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2005 06:45:43 -0400 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by omx2.sgi.com (8.12.11/8.12.9/linux-outbound_gateway-1.1) with ESMTP id j5OCZiA6012241; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 05:35:44 -0700 Received: from v0 (mtv-vpn-hw-masa-1.corp.sgi.com [134.15.25.210]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (SGI-8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id j5OAjcdO40585285; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 03:45:38 -0700 (PDT) To: Catalin Marinas In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.0beta3 (GTK+ 2.6.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org > it should at least > check whether the commit message was modified. I suspect not. Beware that quilt has tended toward the philosophy of doing just what you said, with no more, perhaps less than, the minimum critical consistency checking. If you tried to shoot you foot off with it, it shot your foot off, quickly. If I try to make a change without a meaninguful log entry, what business of stgit is that? And it certainly should not leave the tree in some unspecified, inconsistent state without prior warning on account of such. Don't add inessential sanity checks on user input. It won't sell well to the "quilt replacement" market. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.925.600.0401