Re: [Quilt-dev] status query for patch description feature

[Yasushi SHOJI]

Hi Martin,

Thank you for your reply.  I've been using your quilt debian
package. Thank you for your work!

At Mon, 28 Jun 2004 04:50:46 +0200,
address@hidden wrote:
> 
> Selon Yasushi SHOJI <address@hidden>:
> 
> > Hi list,
> > 
> > I just started to use quilt on a few source code I'm working on.
> > Quilt seems to be very useful tool to maintain patches.
> > 
> > One feature I miss from akpm's patch scripts or Holger Schurig's
> > patcher is patch description files.
> > 
> > I looked around ml but couldn't find any discussion about it.  Is the
> > feature considered useful in quilt community?  any agreements on how
> > to implement?
> 
> The patch program allows you to put any kind of cruft in the file before the
> actual patch. I use this area to put my comments, and I have the very strong
> feeling that other peoples do so also. 

OK, I had not found the following paragraph in man page:

>       Documentation related to a patch can be put at the beginning of a patch
>       file.  Quilt is careful to preserve all text that precedes  the  actual
>       patch when doing a refresh. (This is limited to patches in unified for-
>       mat; see diff documentation).

Thanks!  Now I can start using quilt for all of my code.

> Having everything in the same file allows neat stuff. Check 
>  http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/~mquinson/grid.html#nws
> At the end of the box about the source package, you'll find all patches 
> applied
> on top of the upstream package. Each of them contain a specific line begining
> with '%title', and that's the description which ends on the web page. Those
> patches are extracted automatically at the web page compilation time. It would
> be kind of harder if the description would be in a separate file. 
>
> But this is not perfect either.Check the discussion about diffstat for hints
> about how to improve this...

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/quilt-dev/2004-06/msg00015.html

this is the thread, right?  we used to have those neat trick but has
been removed for sometime.  it'd be nice to have %signed-off-by,
too. ;)

regards,
--
          yashi

# btw, there is a project hosted at sf.net called Quilt.  has anyone
# noticed?