[csw-maintainers] gar suggestion

[Philip Brown]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
>
> It _is_ possible to simply go in and snapshot it after the fact, but
> that's not useful in the 'makepatch' sense.  You typically want to:
>
> 1. find out $foo doesn't build.
> 2. hack the source until it does.
> 3. capture the changes that 'made it go.'
>
> If you don't have the git repo setup ahead of time, this workflow
> suffers.


??

what's so horrible about adding to the above workflow

 1.5  type "gmake gitify" ?
 2. hack the source...



Contrariwise, if you KNOW you are not interested in patching, and you
KNOW you just want to "build and go"... waiting the extra time to
watch the system "set up for patching" is fairly annoying.

and consider if this is a non-maintainer, who just wants to built a
package,and might not even have git installed?