Managing patches [was Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] overlay/persistence second pass - for developer reference only]

[Mark McLoughlin]

Hey,

On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 16:18 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> * It's good to get into the habit of doing git commits for each
> separate
> change.  Then you can get a patch per change.  And that would avoid
> having the addidir/addsdir stuff being in the same changes 

	FWIW, I don't think this approach useful, unless you're the type of
person that gets every change perfect first time :-)

	Basically, git records a history of how you developed a set of changes,
rather than allowing you to work individual changes separately. 

	I've tried stgit (stacked git), but found it fairly cumbersome and
confusing. I may try it again sometime, but right now I still use quilt
for managing a set of patches ...

	(And yes, quilt isn't perfect either - as demonstrated by me sending an
older version of a patch yesterday)

Cheers,
Mark.