Hi Catalin,

2011/2/1 Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>:
>> Couldn't a new stg patch name be sneaked into some "private"/reserved
>> git metadata field?
>
> I'm not sure. We could add some field in the message as well but I was
> looking for easy interworking with standard "git rebase". Once you
> touch the stack outside StGit, it gets confused because commit ids no
> longer match the patches.

I wonder if you are not collapsing two different "patch name" concepts
into one. I think I understood that as the StGit developer you need an
ID to track patches. For reasons that you discussed you now want this
ID to be automatically generated and not rename-able. Fine. On the
other hand, as a user I would like to have a user-friendly name for
some of my patches (possibly not even for all of them), and the
ability to modify these names. If these user-friendly names/aliases
are "implemented" as an optional property line at the bottom commit
message, at a pure StGit user interface level, totally NOT found in
StGit internals but just on the surface, then where is the problem?

Sorry if this is stupid and I miss something obvious - my technical
knowledge is quite limited here.

Cheers,

Marc


>> Besides this naming issue I agree that the general direction makes a
>> lot of sense.
>
> Well, actually the patch naming becomes the real issue. If we have
> patch names we need additional metadata.

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