[webkit-dev] webkit-patch and SVN

[Dirk Pranke]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Kalle Vahlman <kalle.vahlman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/4/15 Dirk Pranke <dpranke at chromium.org>:
>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Eric Seidel <eric at webkit.org> wrote:
>>> Question: Do SVN users wish to have webkit-patch be
>>> current-working-directory aware?
>> [snip]
>>> The propose change will make webkit-patch inconsistent between VCS
>>> tools, but consistent with the users choice of SVN vs. Git.  Is this
>>> SVN users desired behavior?
>>
>> I will surprise myself here and say that webkit-patch should do things
>> "the SVN way" when using SVN and "the Git way" when using Git.
>> Normally I am in favor of having VCS wrappers paper over the
>> differences between systems, but from experience I can say that when
>> using SVN I often have multiple changes in flight in a single
>> checkout, whereas Git makes that very difficult.
>
> How so? You can stage or commit single files or directories, even a
> single chunk of the changes within a file if you use the interactive
> add. git diff also can show changes in a single file or directory, git
> log can show the changelog for single file or directory... All you
> need to do is to give the file or directory on the command line,
> separated with -- in case there is (possibility of) a  clash with a
> symbolic commit name (tag or branch).
>

You're right about that. I was thinking more of things like "svn
status" only looks at the subtree whereas "git status" will always
look at the whole tree. This makes it easy for people to write tools
on top of SVN for managing multiple changes in flight at once (like
gclient), whereas I've not seen people try to do that with Git (you
could do it with 'git stash', but, of course, Git has so many knobs
you can do just about anything).

-- Dirk