Re: [StGit PATCH 00/13] Eliminate 'top' and 'bottom' files

["David Kågedal" <davidk@lysator.liu.se>]

16 sep 2007 kl. 01.42 skrev Karl Hasselström:

> On 2007-09-15 00:31:09 +0200, David Kågedal wrote:
>
>> The following series removes the 'bottom' and 'top' files for each
>> patch, and instead uses the commit objects to keep track of the
>> patches.
>
> Wonderful! Does this ensure that there's a bijection between patches
> and commits at _all_ times, or am I missing something?

That's the intention, at least. As far as I could tell, the biject  
already held, except temporarily in the middle of executing some  
commands.  So I had to refactor them to never create that intermedate  
state.

>> The last two patches do the final cleansing. Obviously, this changes
>> the format, and the format version should be increased and and
>> update function be written. So it's not really ready to go in yet.
>
> It's a trivial format update, though: just delete those two files and
> increase the number from 2 to 3.
>
> Hmm, wait, no. Right. We also have to create commits for those patches
> that don't have exactly one commit object. Not that there'll be many
> of them, but better not make assumptions ...

I haven't seen any such patches, but I haven't tried everything.  
Neither do the test suite test everything.

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David Kågedal
davidk@lysator.liu.se