Git tools for managing patchsets

[Michael]

So since MacPorts is moving to git, and from what I saw in the "how to use git" docs you mentioned, you apparently want people to work with patchsets rebased onto the current head from upstream.

As I was thinking about that, I realized that you lose your history of the patchset in the process.

The Git mailing list pointed me to these resources, that I thought I'd pass up to you.

1. git-series: track changes to a patch series over time
" Debian package maintenance tends to have this exact family of problems:
 maintaining a set of patches to upstream code, rebasing those patches on
 new upstream versions, reorganizing/refining/adding/dropping patches,
 having individual patches merged upstream, and backporting changes *from*
 upstream."

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/10/msg00004.html

2. Stacked git -- looks like a similar system, tracking a "stack of patches".
https://stgit.org/

3. A discussion looking at git-series vs stacked git:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/08/msg00220.html


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