From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:28:12 +0100 (BST) Received: from alg145.algor.co.uk ([IPv6:::ffff:62.254.210.145]:62481 "EHLO dmz.algor.co.uk") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:27:52 +0100 Received: from alg158.algor.co.uk ([62.254.210.158] helo=olympia.mips.com) by dmz.algor.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1EFZ9I-0001FL-00; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:26:12 +0100 Received: from highbury.mips.com ([192.168.192.236]) by olympia.mips.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1EFZAJ-0003r7-00; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:27:15 +0100 Message-ID: <43284153.1040508@mips.com> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:27:15 +0100 From: Nigel Stephens Organization: MIPS Technologies User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050817) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan-Benedict Glaw CC: Ralf Baechle , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Git References: <20050913124544.GC3224@linux-mips.org> <20050913133126.GO23161@lug-owl.de> <20050913152038.GE3224@linux-mips.org> <20050914095858.GD23161@lug-owl.de> <20050914123750.GL3224@linux-mips.org> <20050914152144.GJ23161@lug-owl.de> In-Reply-To: <20050914152144.GJ23161@lug-owl.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MTUK-Scanner: Found to be clean X-MTUK-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=-4.84, required 4, AWL, BAYES_00) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 8949 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: nigel@mips.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: >>>To get fixes/port updates/subsystem updates upstream to Linus, GIT is >>>the way[tm] to go, so we'd try to get familiar with it. >>> >>> >>The other accepted currency of the trade are still simple patches, see >>http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/The_perfect_patch. >> >> > >ACK. But unless you've got the perfect Patch Queue Manager that'll >re-diff and re-send your patches automatically to Linus, you keep on >doing some manual work or at least starting your scripts ever and ever >again :) > > > Speaking of patch management, has anyone tried out Stacked GIT (aka StGIT, aka quilt on GIT) at http://www.procode.org/stgit/? It looks like it could be useful, and can be used in conjunction with other porcelain like Cogito. Nigel