Re: [Quilt-dev] combining patches

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Jean Delvare wrote:

> Hi Randy,
>
> > There are 2 commands that are documented to combine patches:
> > diff --combine and files --combine.
> >
> > diff --combine Works For Me.  I can't get files --combine to work.
> > Does it work?  What's the secret?
>
> "quilt files --combine" doesn't actually combine patches. It combines
> lists of files contained in the said patches. It works for me, although
> I was disappointed to see that it doesn't drop duplicates from the
> list. I'd prefer it to do, but maybe there is a reason to the current
> implementation beyond its simplicity.
>
> If you want to only get the changes made to one file (or a given list
> of files), just append the name of the file(s) to your "quilt diff
> --combine" command.
>
> Hope that helps,

Yes, that helps.  I misunderstood, but that's OK,
quilt diff --combine does what I need.

Thanks,
-- 
~Randy