Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:39:52 -0400 | | From | Josef Sipek <> | | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Stacked GIT 0.14.2 |
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On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:24:20PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote: > On 24/03/2008, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> wrote: > > On Monday 2008-03-24 20:59, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > > Stacked GIT 0.14.2 release is available from http://www.procode.org/stgit/. > > > > > > StGIT is a Python application providing similar functionality to Quilt > > > (i.e. pushing/popping patches to/from a stack) on top of GIT. > > > > > > I always wondered what the difference between stgit and guilt is. > > Does anyone have a comparison up? > > There was a thread last year: > > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2007/6/14/249310 > > I don't follow the guilt development to be able to comment. They are > pretty similar regarding patch management but it's probably best to > try both and see which tool you like. StGIT might have a few more > features as it was around for longer (e-mail templates, patch > synchronisation between branches etc.) but guilt seems actively > developed as well.
Right. Try both and use whatever you're happier with.
> I might be wrong here but I'm not sure whether guilt uses three-way > merging when pushing a patch or just a two-way diff apply. The > three-way merging has several advantages in dealing with conflicts.
It's still using two-way diff apply, but I'd like to implement a three-way merge as a fallback.
Josef 'Jeff' Sipek.
-- The box said "Windows XP or better required". So I installed Linux.
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