Bruce Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the major part of what Linus wanted was a bit more involved > than just deleting things. (He may well have wanted to be able to > simply delete things as well; for legal reasons, for example.) > > I seem to remember he wanted to be able to ask a contributor to clean > up a proposed patch before resubmitting it, and for the system to make > that feasible. > > In darcs terms, he wanted to have "darcs amend-record", and "darcs > unrecord" and similar features. So someone could take their working > branch (where they might commit things several times a day) and > reorganise the changes so that they make logical sense.
That's not handled by GIT directly but there is StGIT that allows patch recording/unrecording (push/pop) and amending (refresh). What Linus also wanted was to have throw-away branches. I.e. you can create a branch to do some merging and testing for a while and you should be able to throw it away once you finished with it (either after merging it into the mainline or simply discarding the changes). I don't know about monotone but this wasn't possible in Arch. Darcs allows this since a branch is a new copy of the repository. -- Catalin _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
