[Buildroot] [PATCH] pkg-avail: make it work without stgit

Baruch Siach baruch at tkos.co.il
Sun Oct 14 12:03:11 UTC 2012


Hi Thomas,

On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 01:14:21PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> In order to make this script usable by more developers, make it work
> without stgit. It supports a --mode=stgit option or a --mode=git
> option. When using --mode=stgit, it will preserve its existing
> behavior, when using --mode=git, it will simply make git commits
> without fuzzing needlessly with stgit.
> 
> I still don't understand why people keep using stgit. I guess it's a
> remnant of quilt-style workflow or something like that, because the
> plain git, with its "git rebase -i" feature, allows to do exactly the
> same thing, without having to use a separate tool. So people using
> stgit should /really/ consider having a serious look at "git rebase
> -i", and when they will see the light, they will wonder why for so
> many years they have suffered in keeping their old-style quilt-looking
> workflows.
> 
> Note: the --mode=stgit hasn't been tested after the changes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
> ---
>  support/scripts/pkg-avail |   44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

What branch is this patch based on? I can't find support/scripts/pkg-avail in 
current master.

baruch

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