Re: [Quilt-dev] only 1 quilt dir.

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 20:41:57 +0200 Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:

| On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 20:17, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
| > 
| > Do you happen to recall what version of patch-scripts that quilt
| > evolved from?
| 
| 
| I don't recall, but the docco.txt from the version I used has "18
| October 2002" as timestamp. I haven't found the time to check for
| improvements in Andrew's scripts since then; also quite a number of
| rather specific commands are missing in quilt. I'm sure there are a few
| commands that are generally useful but haven't been ported over, yet.

OK, that's a bit before I made several fixups then.

| I wouldn't mind adding more stuff to quilt so that it becomes a more
| complete substitute for Andrew's scripts, or at least providing a way to
| easily integrate domain specific commands. What I want to avoid is
| polluting quilt with so many specific features that the basic idea gets
| diluted too much. I haven't talked to Andrew about this; feel free to
| forward this to him if you think it might help.

Sounds right.

| > Oh, does 'quilt diff' do the equivalent of Andrew's 'rolled-up-patch'
| > script?
| 
| Create a combined diff of a range of patches? It can do that, yes. See
| `quilt diff -h'; options -c and -P. I think that this will do what you
| want (after pushing all patches):
| 
|       quilt diff -c-
| 
| Did you check the introduction paper in the cvs repository? It's pretty
| helpful to get a quick idea.

Yes, I've read that.

Thanks.
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~Randy