Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [ANNOUNCE] git-series: track changes to a patch series over time

[Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2016, David Howells wrote:
>
>> Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> wrote:
>>
>> > Note that git-series doesn't provide a quilt-style push/pop workflow,
>> > with applied and unapplied patches; it just looks at HEAD.
>>
>> Ah...  In that case it's probably not a sufficient substitute for how I use
>> stgit.
>
> Did not know that there was stgit. Still stuck on quilt since
> I like editing the files directly (its often easier to edit the diffs if
> you want to rename things etc).
>
> Interesting projects.

Shameless plug of our own tooling for maintainer a quilt pile and
tracking it in git:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm-intel/tree/qf?h=maintainer-tools

It even tracks the baseline sha1 and pulls/pushes it in hidden remote
refs/. Which all together allows you to git bisect on the quilt
branch, which is a really powerful thing for a long-lived rebasing
patch pile. quilt+git was the only thing that allowed me to glue
something git bisect capable together.

And the other reason is the same you have: Editing raw patches is
really powerful for doing rebases over mechanical changes. Function
renames become a trivial quilt pop -a ; sed; while quilt push ; do
make ; done.

Cheers, Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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