Re: [ANNOUNCE] pg - A patch porcelain for GIT

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: 2006-02-15 12:14:25
Dear diary, on Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 01:35:10AM CET, I got a letter
where Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> said that...
> Publishing a repository with a stg (or pg) patch series isn't
> a problem; the problem is that no clients currently know how to
> follow along with the remote repository's patch series.  And I can't
> think of a sensible behavior for doing so that isn't what git-core is
> already doing today for non patch series type clients (as in don't go
> backwards by popping but instead by pushing a negative delta).  :-)

New Cogito will automagically do the right thing if you are just
fast-forwarding and you are using cg-update - if the branch rebased, it
will happily follow (but cg-fetch + cg-merge will NOT and it will fall
back to the tree merge).

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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