On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:50:23AM -0700, Alex Chiang wrote:
> * Tim Bird <[email protected]>:
> > Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > I never tried these myself, as I am happy with quilt, but wouldn't
> > > stgit or guilt be suitable for your task? If so, they may be faster
> > > than quilt (or not, I just don't know.)
> > 
> > Thanks for the pointers.  I had heard of people using "stacked git",
> > but thought it was a git methodology, not actual software.  I've
> > never heard of guilt before, but it looks interesting.
> > 
> > For our large trees, we manage a series of patches with quilt, all
> > checked in to a git tree alongside the source.  It looks
> > like other people are doing the same thing, albeit with different
> > tools.
>  
> gregkh has complained about the speed (or lack thereof) when
> using StGit for large patchsets. It's something I've noticed
> myself when, say, importing the relatively small mmotm patch
> queue (which only numbers in the hundreds, not thousands) into an
> stg tree.

Yes, the last time I tried StGit, it was very slow.  But that might be
fixed now, I haven't tried it out.

Same goes for topgit, I haven't tried that in a long time either.

greg k-h


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