Re: [Quilt-dev] quilt and debian (was something else)

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Tim,

Le mardi 24 novembre 2009 01:06, Tim Bird a écrit :
> Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Tim Bird wrote:
> >> I agree with Greg.  I have several trees that have over 1000 patches.
> > 
> > Why are you using quilt and not a VCS for those heavy cases?
> I'm unaware of a VCS that does the same thing quilt does.
> Specifically, quilt allows you to manage patch boundaries,
> either keeping or preserving original patches as you see fit,
> and allowing easy re-ordering of changesets.  This is important
> when managing large change sets that are externally created,
> not accepted upstream, and locally adapted.

I never tried these myself, as I am happy with quilt, but wouldn't
stgit or guilt be suitable for your task? If so, they may be faster
than quilt (or not, I just don't know.)

-- 
Jean Delvare
Suse L3