Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2] guilt: force the use of bare branches

From: Per Cederqvist <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 14:39:31 +0200

On 05/22/13 14:11, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> To make it harder to accidentally do "git push" with a guilt patch
> applied, "guilt push" changes branch from e.g. "master" to
> "guilt/master" starting with commit 67d3af63f422.  This is a feature
> which I use for ext4 development; I actually *do* want to be able to
> push patches to the dev branch, which is a rewindable branch much like
> git's "pu" branch.
>
> Allow the use of the environment variable GUILT_FORCE_BARE_BRANCH
> which disables the new behavior introduced by commit 67d3af63f422.
>
> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Per Cederqvist <[email-masked]>

I just posted an alternative patch that solves the same issue.
I forgot to add in-reply-to headers, and did change the subject
to "Added guilt.reusebranch configuration option". Sorry if I've
caused any confusion.

     /ceder

> ---
>   guilt | 17 +++++++++++++----
>   1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/guilt b/guilt
> index e9b2aab..35a84dc 100755
> --- a/guilt
> +++ b/guilt
> @@ -914,13 +914,22 @@ else
>   	die "Unsupported operating system: $UNAME_S"
>   fi
>
> -if [ "$branch" = "$raw_git_branch" ] && [ -n "`get_top 2>/dev/null`" ]
> -then
> -    # This is for compat with old repositories that still have a
> -    # pushed patch without the new-style branch prefix.
> +if [ -n "`get_top 2>/dev/null`" ]; then
> +  #
> +  # If we have repositories patches pushed, then use whatever scheme
> +  # is currently in use
> +  #
> +  if [ "$branch" = "$raw_git_branch" ]; then
>       old_style_prefix=true
> +  else
> +    old_style_prefix=false
> +  fi
>   else
> +  if [ "$(git config --bool --get guilt.bareBranch)" = "true" ]; then
> +    old_style_prefix=true
> +  else
>       old_style_prefix=false
> +  fi
>   fi
>
>   _main "$@"
>