From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Ext4 Patch Queue using stgit.
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 22:39:49 +0530
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To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
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Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 06:12:23PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I was looking at ext4 patch queue and was wondering why we are  putting 
>> .patch under git. If we are looking for a quilt like functionality, one 
>> can achieve the same using stgit. I was using stgit to maintain a set of
>> patches before. 
> 
> The problem with stgit is that you lose the history of the patches.
> This is why the stable kernel queue is also kept as a git repository
> of patches.
> 
> 

What i used to do with

http://git.openssi.org/~kvaneesh/gitweb.cgi?p=ci-to-linus.git;a=summary

is after doing stg refresh, push all the patches and then commit the 
diff between the head of the master (which is managed by stgit ) and one 
of the tracking branches to the tracking branch. That way the history of 
the patches can be tracked in the tracking branches. In my previous mail 
i have marked the below urls as eg:

http://git.openssi.org/~kvaneesh/gitweb.cgi?h=2.6.20-rc1-ci-to-linus;p=ci-to-linus.git;a=shortlog

http://git.openssi.org/~kvaneesh/gitweb.cgi?h=2.6.19-rc1-ci-to-linus;p=ci-to-linus.git;a=shortlog

-aneesh