linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] Stacked GIT 0.14.2

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Date:	Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:39:52 -0400
From:	Josef Sipek <jsipek@....cs.sunysb.edu>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@...il.com>
Cc:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
	git <git@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Stacked GIT 0.14.2

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:24:20PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On 24/03/2008, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de> wrote:
> > On Monday 2008-03-24 20:59, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> >
> >  > Stacked GIT 0.14.2 release is available from http://www.procode.org/stgit/.
> >  >
> >  > StGIT is a Python application providing similar functionality to Quilt
> >  > (i.e. pushing/popping patches to/from a stack) on top of GIT.
> >
> >
> > I always wondered what the difference between stgit and guilt is.
> >  Does anyone have a comparison up?
> 
> There was a thread last year:
> 
> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2007/6/14/249310
> 
> I don't follow the guilt development to be able to comment. They are
> pretty similar regarding patch management but it's probably best to
> try both and see which tool you like. StGIT might have a few more
> features as it was around for longer (e-mail templates, patch
> synchronisation between branches etc.) but guilt seems actively
> developed as well.
 
Right. Try both and use whatever you're happier with.

> I might be wrong here but I'm not sure whether guilt uses three-way
> merging when pushing a patch or just a two-way diff apply. The
> three-way merging has several advantages in dealing with conflicts.

It's still using two-way diff apply, but I'd like to implement a three-way
merge as a fallback.

Josef 'Jeff' Sipek.

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