Re: [Quilt-dev] quilt remove gone

[Dirk Behme]

Arnaud Patard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was testing current development code and found out that 'quilt remove'
> has been replaced by 'quilt revert'. I don't know what are the exacts
> reasons for this but from my point of view, it's a broken change :(
>
> With 'quilt remove', it was possible to remove a file from a patch,
> while with 'quilt revert' it's not. For instance, one creates a new file
> with 'quilt edit' and then found out, it's not needed. So, I was using
> 'quilt remove' to remove it. With 'quilt revert', it's a nop.
>
> Can someone help me and tell me how am I supposed to remove a file from
> a patch now that 'quilt remove' is gone ?

Yes, 'quilt revert' doesn't work for me, too, to remove a file. E.g.:

-- cut --
> quilt --version
0.47
> quilt files
Makefile
> quilt revert Makefile
File Makefile is unchanged
> quilt files
Makefile
> quilt diff
Index: u-boot-main/Makefile
===================================================================
--- u-boot-main.orig/Makefile
+++ u-boot-main/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#
+#
 # (C) Copyright 2000-2008
 # Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, address@hidden
 #
>
-- cut --

Seems to me that this "File Makefile is unchanged" as reaction to 
'quilt revert <file>' is just wrong? Any hint how to remove a file 
from a patch without 'quilt remove'?

Thanks

Dirk