Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:20:33 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: x86/x86-64 merge for 2.6.19 |
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On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 01:44:42PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > Right. I'm actually surprised not more peole use git that way. It was > > literally one of the _design_goals_ of git to have people use quilt a a > > more "willy-nilly" front-end process, with git giving the true distributed > > nature that you can't get from that kind of softer patch-queue like > > system. > > One of the major benefits from git is that whenever I decide to > do some changes git allows me to start modifying as I like and when > done I just do "git diff | less" to review it. And when it turns out > to be a piece of crap I just do "git reset --hard" and be done with it. > This make my life so much easier than having to copy symlinked tress > around all the time - and I then may not touch the base for the symlinks.
Yeah, I won't argue against that too much. I'm a pure git user myself, although my patterns tend to be different from most other people (only fairly small code changes, and mostly merging other peoples code: I end up often touching source code more when I do some trivial manual conflict resolution than at most other times..)
And yes, making "git diff" as efficient as possible was definitely one of the things that I worked on, exactly because it is how I work when I do end up working on something: continually reminding myself what the other changes I did were..
So "git" should work fine for pretty much any normal development, but a patch maintenance system it ain't.
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