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

Linus Torvalds
2008-02-13T00:50:40Z

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.

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).

It wasn't the original goal of git, but not only are really doing all the
series management anyway (that is largely what "rebase" is all about,
after all), but the git goals have obviously expanded over time too.

Linus