Re: Develop a patch series with git?

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Tue, 11 Feb 2020, Jeff King wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 10:22:20AM +0100, Steve Keller wrote:
>
> > I wonder how git supports developing a series of small patches.  In my
> > usual development I go back and forth along a series of patches before
> > I can commit them all.  I use quilt for that.
> >
> > Say I want to add feature FOO and start a patch "FOO" editing some
> > source file.  In the process of doing so I realize that I need an
> > extension of some function to base my patch on, so I do "quilt pop" to
> > undo patch FOO and insert a new patch BAR and then re-apply FOO by
> > calling quilt push.  No I can use the new extension from BAR in my
> > current patch FOO.  The patch series often contains quite a number of
> > patches and I push, pop, and edit these patches quite often.  Only
> > when everything is done I use git commit all the patches into the
> > repository.
> >
> > My question is whether there is git functionality to replace quilt.
> > Or is the combination of quilt and git common?
>
> Another responder mentioned "rebase -i", which is the most direct
> equivalent.

I think the most direct equivalent is `guilt`:
https://repo.or.cz/w/guilt.git

There haven't been any patches since May 2018 which either means that the
project is dead or that it is so robust that no changes are necessary
anymore.

Ciao,
Johannes