Marco Costalba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Suppose a possible scenario involves using a couple of git archives, one > for releases and stable code, say MAIN, and one for experimental stuff > or new development, say HEAD. > > Suppose there is stuff in HEAD you don't want merged in MAIN, more, > you need to update MAIN with only a subset of patches in HEAD, peraphs > in different order. Or simply, you are not interested to see the history > of the HEAD tree when looking MAIN. All this points could keep you > from merging.
As others already recommended StGIT, I will just add a simple usage scenario (I do this with my StGIT repository). The MAIN/stable repository (or branch) is only managed with GIT, not StGIT. The HEAD one is managed with StGIT (only, you can use 'stg clone'). You can create patches, modify them etc. (I updated the README in the latest snapshot and it contains some kind of tutorial). Once you want a subset of these patches merged into MAIN, just pop everything from the stack and only push those you want merged, in the order you want (if there are some dependencies, the push will fail and you can correct them or the order). When you are happy with the patches pushed on the stack, just do a 'git pull <HEAD>' in the MAIN repository. After this, doing a 'stg pull <MAIN>' in the HEAD one will mark the patches already integrated into MAIN as empty and you can safely remove them ('stg clean' does this automatically). This way I found StGIT useful for maintainers as well, not only for contributors. -- Catalin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html