On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:41:17 -0800, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I don't think we really get back the functionality of quilt until
> we're shipping the repository with the source package.
This is an interesting statement. What exactly does quilt get me
that a distributed VCS that does not ship the whole archive history
does not have? What use cases do you have in mind?
> Having access to a read-only Subversion repository doesn't really help
> with merging local patches into new upstream releases, for example
> (something that I have to do all the time, and which is *way* easier
> for packages that use quilt or dpatch to the point that I've had to
> convert Debian packages that don't use either to use quilt just to be
> able to deal with them).
I must be being dense. People have, in the past, asked me to
merge changes from their arch branches of devotee, and I could see the
diffs between their branch and various devotee branches I had lying
around, and cherry picking and merging from their branch was relatively
painless.
Are you suggesting that somehow dpatch/quilt would have been
even more effective? How do you quickly get diffs between several
parrallel lines of development that I am trying out from a quilt'ed
patch set?
manoj
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