linearising TopGit forests into patch series (was: [ANNOUNCE] TopGit - A different patch queue manager)

[Bert Wesarg]

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 19:56, martin f krafft <madduck at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Petr and everyone else,
>
> as some of you may know, I am working on http://vcs-pkg.org, and
> Pierre kindly alerted me to your announcement, which looks very
> interesting for what we are trying to do.
>
> Assuming a number of interdependent topic branches, does TopGit
> provide a way for me to linearise/flatten/serialise these branches
> in a one-patch-per-branch fashion, so that I could turn any TopGit
> repository into a quilt series? I am only interested in a one-way
> conversion from TopGit to quilt for now.
Should be doable, I think. At least you can get a topological sorted
list of the TopGit branches (with git show-branch --topo-order <list
of TopGit-branches>). But than it get complicated, because you don't
need the diff from branch-base to branch-head, this would only work
for a single dependent list of topic branches.

At least this is my current point of thinking for this problem.

Regards
Bert
> Thank you,