Re: patch management with git

[Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu>]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 02:11:19PM +0200, Rémi Vanicat wrote:
> One difficulties with this if evolving patch: git format-patch
> generate one patch by git commit, when some of the commit are new
> patches when other are modification of old patches. At least to use
> topic branch render this clearer (one patch ~ one branch)

Yes, topic branches seem like a big advantage compared with keeping a
dpatch series correct when a later patch interferes with or depends on
an earlier one.

Can't the log message associated with creating a topic branch serve
as an equivalent to the dpatch header / patch description?

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Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u