Re: [Monotone-devel] guilt

[Ludovic Brenta]

Brian May writes:
> I saw this on the Debian lists:
>
> === cut ===
> * Package name    : guilt 
>   Version         : 0.20 
>   Upstream Author : Josef "Jeff" Sipek <address@hidden> 
> * URL             : 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jsipek/guilt/ 
> * License         : GPLv2 
>   Programming Lang: Bash 
>   Description     : guilt adds Mercurial queues-like functionality on top of 
> git 
>  
> Guilt (Git Quilt) is a series of bash scripts which add a Mercurial 
> queues-like functionality and interface to git.  The one distinguishing 
> feature from other quilt-like porcelains, is the format of the patches 
> directory. All the information is stored as plain text - a series file 
> and the patches (one per file). This easily lends itself to versioning 
> the patches using any number of of SCMs. 
> === cut ===
>
> If I wasn't so constrained for time right now, I would look at porting
> this other to monotone (if it is any good that is).

I use plain quilt to maintain all my Debian packages, and keep my
patches in monotone with no problems.  I'm not even sure what
"integrating" quilt and an SCM means, much less what the advantages
would be.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.