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Re:Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019) by dilap on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @12:17AM (#21977116)
cherry picking is a shitshow!

i would love to be able to use a patch-based VC.

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Re:Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019) by james_s_tayler on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @12:41AM (#21977252)
You can still generate and apply patches with Git.
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Re:Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019) by nemo1618 on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @01:23AM (#21977467)
I believe GP is referring to Darcs/Pijul-style patches, rather than Git "patches," which are really just diffs. See https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Understanding_Darcs/Patch_theo...
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Re:Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019) by dilap on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @02:16AM (#21977752)
yep, nemo got it right. git basically hacks cherry-picks in the same way previous VCS’s hacked branches.

unfortunately there are no patch-theory based VCS’s with a practical level of usability. what git was to monotone, X is to darcs/pijul, where X hasn’t been created yet.

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