[Buildroot] [PATCH] pkg-avail: make it work without stgit

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sun Oct 14 13:33:54 UTC 2012


Thomas, All,

On Sunday 14 October 2012 Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> In order to make this script usable by more developers, make it work
> without stgit. It supports a --mode=stgit option or a --mode=git
> option. When using --mode=stgit, it will preserve its existing
> behavior, when using --mode=git, it will simply make git commits
> without fuzzing needlessly with stgit.

You are right. This script should not depend on anything else than git.

That I use stgit behind the hood, when it is not a required tool imposed
by upstream, is my problem, and should be no concern for upstream.

> I still don't understand why people keep using stgit. I guess it's a
> remnant of quilt-style workflow or something like that, because the
> plain git, with its "git rebase -i" feature, allows to do exactly the
> same thing, without having to use a separate tool. So people using
> stgit should /really/ consider having a serious look at "git rebase
> -i", and when they will see the light, they will wonder why for so
> many years they have suffered in keeping their old-style quilt-looking
> workflows.

I use stgit because I like the patch-queue semantic better, and I find it
much easier to work with, than the rebase semantic.

Also, what I am interested in, is getting changes upstream; that's my goal.
I am not interested in learning how to use *git* per-se: it is just a tool
to achieve that goal. If I can achieve the exact same goal by using the
much simpler stgit, then I'll use that, even if git is more powerful.

And no, I never used quilt before. And no, I am not suffering of using
stgit (quite the opposite, to be true). ;-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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