Re: [PATCH] Add contrib/stg-gitk: helper script to run gitk

["Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>]

On 12/01/07, Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> wrote:
> Indeed "stg series -g" may differ too much from "stg-gitk" to plug the
> functionnality at this place: "stg series" is a command acting on one
> stack, whereas stg-gitk is a repository-wide command, allowing to draw
> several stacks, and also includes anything below stack base, which
> looks also out of the scope of "stg series -g".  Maybe a new command
> is called for - possibly as something like
> "stg repo graph [<branch>...]" ?

Maybe repo --graph at the moment (until we add some unified support
for subcommands) but not sure what other options would go into 'repo'.
Anyway, I haven't had time to try any of your scripts yet and I don't
know what stg-gitk shows.

> OK, the command names were borrowed from tools which provide a
> fraction of the functionnality stgit (not exactly so in the case of
> GIT, OK ;).  That makes it easy for people used to those commands that
> served as inspiration to the stgit ones, I know that (I used quilt
> before stgit).  But I do feel that having a more consistent command
> set would help - remember quilt has no idea of branches, multiple
> repositories and history, stgit is in many ways a very different beast :)

StGIT probably got enough advertisement as being a Quilt replacement
for GIT. It would be OK to re-organize the commands (and use aliases
to still have the current functionality).

As I said in a different e-mail, I'd first like to get StGIT in a
feature-freeze state (well, mainly not changing major things) and fix
the remaining bugs to get 1.0 out. After that, we can redefine the
commands, repository structure or whatever has a bad design.

> There are already aliases in GIT itself, they are quite simple to
> understand, and would probably require very little code in python.
> I'll have a look at that, unless you would veto integration of such a
> patch.

I'd like this patch (though I haven't used aliases in GIT yet).

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Catalin