Subject: Re: How to set git commit timestamp

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 12:58:34 +0200

On Tue, 8 May 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote: 
> On Mon, 7 May 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>> Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]> wrote:

>>> By the way, is there fast-import version of git-quiltimport?
>> 
>> No, and I don't think its easy.  Isn't a quilt patchstack stored as a 
>> series of patch files?  So "importing" it into Git requires applying the 
>> patch to the base tree, then writing that base tree to the ODB.  
>> fast-import doesn't know how to run git-apply, though Junio and I did 
>> kick it around (generally) a few months ago on #git.
> 
> You'd have to pretend that all of these patches are branches. Well, in the 
> end they are...

Or rather that patch _series_ are branches. 

It would be also nice to have one of the patch management UI on top of git
like StGIT or Guilt (IIRC pg is no longer maintained) to import series
of patches as unapplied from Quilt (or from mbox/file).

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland