Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:55:52 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-)) |
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 05:36:41AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:16:53PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > 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 like using "guilt" because I can easily reapply the patchset using > "guilt push -a", which is just slightly fewer characters to type than > "git-quiltimport". This also means that I don't need to switch back > and forth between "git mode" and "quilt mode" when I'm editing the > patches (either directly by editing the patch files, in which case > afterwards I do a "guilt pop -a; guilt push -a", or by using "guilt > pop", "guilt push", and "guilt refresh").
I had problems getting guilt to preserve metadata properly last time I tried it, and it forced me to work with the same location and format that the original developers used, which wasn't as flexable as quilt could handle from what I recall.
But I'll try it again, it might have gotten better...
thanks,
greg k-h
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