Re: [Quilt-dev] [PATCH] 2nd ed.- quilt fetch: pull series and patches over ftp/http

[Brandon Philips]

On 14:08 Mon 13 Aug 2007, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Monday 13 August 2007 06:47, Brandon Philips wrote:
> > 2nd edition: fixes the previous regex problem
> > 
> > I have seen a number of people posting patch series on ftp and http
> > sites but there is no good way of pulling these series into a tree,
> > until now.  :)
> > 
> > example usage:
> > 
> > quilt fetch 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.2-rc2/2.6.2-rc2-mm1/broken-out/series
> > 
> > This will download all patches in the series file and import them into
> > the tree in the proper order.
> 
> That's maybe not one of the best examples as Andrew always puts tarballs with 
> the broken-out patches on www.kernel.org, too.

Right, I didn't want to eat up bandwidth on Random J Developers personal
web server.

> * I'm wondering whether url fetching and fetching an entire series file
>   shouldn't just be added to the import command, as that would improve
>   import at the same time.

The reason I didn't was that the import command is meant for importing
just one patch at a time.  

I suppose a logical change would be to have import take either a single
patch _or_ a path to a series file?

> * curl needs a configure.ac check.

I am not familiar with autoconfig.  So, I will look at later today but
if someone beats me to it I won't complain ;)

Thanks,

        Brandon