Re: [dev] Suckless/Simple version control

From: Kurt Van Dijck <dev.kurt_AT_vandijck-laurijssen.be>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2019 10:42:09 +0100

On ma, 09 dec 2019 21:22:05 +1300, David Phillips wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 05:47:42AM +0000, Jacob Louis Prosser wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I started working on my own version control system working with patch/diff. Each commit is just a patch changing the last commit's files to the new ones. It is currently implemented as a collection of shell scripts https://gitlab.com/jacobprosser8/svcs. The implementation is god awful as I am not the best shell scripter, feel free to yell at me.
>
>
> This reminds me of quilt: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt

indeed.

Long ago, quilt was good for maintaining patch files in a buildroot or
similar project.
Now, I find myself working in git and do a format-patch in the end to produce
the patch files that I need.
IMHO, git supersedes quilt with several magnitudes,

What is wrong with git?

Kurt

>
> BR,
> David
>
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