Re: [Quilt-dev] goto a special patch

[Sascha Manns]

Kaz Kylheku wrote at Samstag, 21. Juli 2012, 12:27:42:
> On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 20:57:51 +0200, Sascha Manns
> 
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hello Kaz,
> > 
> > You wrote at Samstag, 21. Juli 2012, 11:40:17:
> >> Let's assume that "go to one" means you want to work with patch one,
> >> not necessarily making it the top patch. There are two cases:
> >> 
> >> 1. Patches two and three do not have any conflicting changes (do not
> >> affect
> >> 
> >>    the same files) as patch one.
> >> 
> >> 2. Patches two and three have conflicting changes: they apply changes
> >> on top
> >> 
> >>    of some of the same files as patch one.
> > 
> > Ah ok. In my case it is (1). I want to add and modify a already present
> > file in the sourcecode. Actually a quilt add adds the file to the latest
> > patch on top.
> 
> You can add files to a non-top patch.
> 
> There is some decent built-in help in quilt, by the way. Any
> command takes -h for a usage summary:
> 
> $ quilt add -h
> Usage: quilt add [-P patch] {file} ...
> 
> Add one or more files to the topmost or named patch.  Files must be
> added to the patch before being modified.  Files that are modified by
> patches already applied on top of the specified patch cannot be added.
> 
> -P patch
>         Patch to add files to.
Yeah, that works. Thank you very much.
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