Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 04:49:46PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > Perhaps you need to switch to using quilt.  This is the main reason why
> > I use it.
> 
> Btw, on that note: if some quilt user can send an "annotated history file" 
> of their quilt usage, it's something that git really can do, and I'll see 
> if I can merge (or rather, coax Junio to merge) the relevant part of stgit 
> to make it possible to just basically get "quilt behaviour" for the parts 
> of a git tree that you haven't pushed out yet.

Ted's description matches mine (keep quilt tree in git, edit changelog
entries, rebase on newer kernel versions, etc.)  I can go into details
if needed.

> A pure patch-stack will be faster at that thing than git would be (it's 
> simply easier to just track patches), but on the other hand, using git 
> would get some other advantages outside of the integration issue (eg the 
> cherry-pick thing really is a proper three-way merge, not just an "apply 
> patch", so it can do better).

I was amazed at how slow stgit was when I tried it out.  I use
git-quiltimport a lot and I don't think it's any slower than just using
quilt on its own.  So I think that the speed issue should be the same.

I had a number of issues last time I tried stgit out, but maybe they are
now resolved, I'll try it out tomorrow and report to the git list
anything I find that doesn't work for me.

thanks,

greg k-h