Comment by mikepurvis

I've long wanted a hosted Git service that would help me maintain long lived fork branches. I know there's some necessary manual work that is occasionally required to integrate patches, but the existing tooling that I'm familiar with for this kind of thing is overly focused on Debian packaging (quilt, git-buildpackage) and has horrifyingly poor ergonomics.

I'd love a system that would essentially be a source control of my patches, while also allowing a first class view of the upstream source + patches applied, giving me clear controls to see exactly when in the upstream history the breakages were introduced, so that I'm less locking in precise upstream versions that can accept the patches, and more actively engaging with ranges of upstream commits/tags.

I can't imagine how such a thing would actually be commercially useful, but darned if would be an obvious fit for AI to automatically examine the upstream and patch history and propose migrations.