Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:55:52 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, jeff@garzik.org,
       arjan@infradead.org, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
       akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 05:36:41AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:16:53PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > I was amazed at how slow stgit was when I tried it out.  I use
> > git-quiltimport a lot and I don't think it's any slower than just using
> > quilt on its own.  So I think that the speed issue should be the same.
> 
> I like using "guilt" because I can easily reapply the patchset using
> "guilt push -a", which is just slightly fewer characters to type than
> "git-quiltimport".  This also means that I don't need to switch back
> and forth between "git mode" and "quilt mode" when I'm editing the
> patches (either directly by editing the patch files, in which case
> afterwards I do a "guilt pop -a; guilt push -a", or by using "guilt
> pop", "guilt push", and "guilt refresh").

I had problems getting guilt to preserve metadata properly last time I
tried it, and it forced me to work with the same location and format
that the original developers used, which wasn't as flexable as quilt
could handle from what I recall.

But I'll try it again, it might have gotten better...

thanks,

greg k-h
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