On 5/30/13 8:04 PM, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 wrote:
I can't see how they are a good alternative. With patch queues, I can maintain a complex refactoring in a patch queue containing dozens of smallish patches. In particular, I can easily realize I made a mistake in patch 3 while working on patch 21 and make sure that the fix ends up in patch 3; I don't see how that is easily achievable in git branches.
Stacked Git (stgit) is a good compromise between git's lightweight branches and hq's patch queues. I wouldn't want to use git without it. I wrote about stgit here:
http://www.cpeterso.com/blog/02013/03/stacked-git-mercurial-style-patch-queues-for-git/ chris peterson _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
