- Maintaining modifications against a remote branch, possibly
- with the intent of sending some patches upstream. StGIT
- assists in preparing and cleaning up patches until they are
- acceptable upstream, as well as maintaining local patches not
- meant to be sent upstream.
+ Tracking changes from a remote branch, while maintaining local
+ modifications against that branch, possibly with the intent of
+ sending some patches upstream. StGIT assists in preparing and
+ cleaning up patches until they are acceptable upstream, as
+ well as maintaining local patches not meant to be sent
+ upstream.
++
+In such a setup, typically all commits on your branch are StGIT
+patches; the stack base is the branch point where your changes "fork"
+off their parent branch.