Re: per-topic or per-file patches (was: pkgquilt)

On Tue, 16 Jun 2026, Rhialto wrote:

> On Mon 15 Jun 2026 at 11:28:34 -0700, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> You might like jujutsu (devel/jj) as well then. It uses git as storage
> but has a different view on the mutability of history. It has fairly
> good tools to move changes from one commit to another. An apparently
> fairly common workflow is that someone first pre-creates one or more
> topic-based commits that start out empty. Then a "scratchpad" commit
> comes after that, where changes collect as they are made.  These changes
> can then be moved to the commit where they belong.
> I read it has borrowed some of these ideas from Mercurial, but I haven't
> used that much yet so I can't tell.

That's right! If you come to the NetBSD devsummit at EuroBSDCon in 
Brussels, you can see me demoing it :)

-- 
Benny