On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 08:32:43PM -0500, William Giokas wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 09:25:25AM +0800, Patrick Haller wrote:
> > i mean in the ii repo -> http://git.suckless.org/ii
>
> I agree...I think they should be put into separate branches. It would
> make rebasing to a newer version ridiculously easy for end users, and
> managing patches easy as well.
>
> I currently do something similar with dwm, I have a branch 'pristine'
> that tracks origin/master, and a multitude of other branches for
> different patches with one that I selectively merge to called
> 'patched' that I use for building. There's no reason to keep patches
> as patch files in git.
In that case, you might find stacked git (stg) useful [1]. I use it to
keep patches on top of origin/master and apply certains ones depending
on which machine I'm on.
Rob
[1]:
http://www.procode.org/stgit/
Received on Sat Apr 13 2013 - 00:15:38 CEST