Re: Collection of stgit issues and wishes

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

[Cc: git@vger.kernel.org]

Catalin Marinas wrote:

> BTW, if it's not clear for me how to initially structure a patch
> series, I add everything to a patch and create underlying patches
> afterwards and pick hunks from the big one (usually manually, though
> native support in StGIT for this would be good, as someone pointed out
> on this list). If all the hunks in the big patch were added to other
> patches, pushing the big one should result in an empty patch
> automatically (because of the three-way merging) and can be safely
> removed.

Perhaps this calls for "stg duplicate" command, which would result
in duplicating patch (perhaps one would need to provide name for
the first patch, and optionally laso for second patch) in such way
that first copy would be on top of aplied stack, and second copy
(the duplicate, with an old name) would be at the bottom of the deck
of unapplied patches.

This way if you want to for example split patch into two, you would
do

$ stg duplicate new-name
$ edit files
$ stg refresh
$ stg push

And similarly (with more duplicates) if you want to split it more.

What do you think about this?
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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