migrating from patch series to a dag of patches

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

I've a simple problem with apparently a not so simple solution.
Before the advent of stuff like topgit, we all used patch stacks in
which you de facto have that the n-th patch (implicitly) depends on
all n-1 patches. When migrating to stuff like topgit you have the
ability to structure the patches in a dag with dependencies only where
they are needed.

Now, how would you migrate from the former setting to the latter?

I'm faced with such problem in basically all my packages that used to
use either dpatch or quilt and which are now willing to use topgit.

Would you just give up and declare the patches as depending on each
other according to the stack discipline? [1] ... or would you rather
figure out a clever way to detect "real" patch dependencies
automatically?

TIA.
Cheers.

[1] this, I believe, is what topgit's tg-import would do

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