Re: ct-ng -> git repos instead of single patches

[Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar at gmail dot com>]

Hi,

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
> But: then you've got now guarantee that the remaining will apply again.
> You'll have to get a fresh upstream tree and apply them all manually
> (unless you don't want to run the whole ct-ng machinery for half an
> hour just to find out that some patches failed). And if some patches
> failed, you'll have to manually replay the changes and diff them
> out again.
>
> In the end, this goes down to an rebase operation again - regardless
> if you're doing it manually or with the help of an proper vcs.
>
the effort should be spent getting the patch upstream, not finding a
way to easily move 250 patches from rev A to rev B. Yes, that's a much
more difficult effort.

 - Arnaud

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