I think it is natural for related changes to be consolidated over time. Think of punctuated equilibrium.
Maybe after it is clear that some patches just go well together, fitting a related niche, they could be consolidated to make maintenance easier. > On Jul 24, 2016, at 12:51 PM, Jan Christoph Ebersbach <j...@e-jc.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > I also keep a patched version of dwm at github.com/jceb/dwm-patches that > stacks all the patches in order to smoothly apply them. This is also > how I develop my patch using quilt. > > Unfortunately, it's extremely hard to port interwoven patches back to > mainline. I have some tooling at github.com/jceb/dwm-clean-patches that > reduces the pain to the bare minimum but even this is a lot of pain and > time. > > Personally, I'd recommend newbies that want to use a patched version to > find someone who's maintaining a "fork". Maybe these "forks" could be > listed in the patches section of the wiki. What do you think? > > Jan Christoph > > PS: I'll update my share of patches in the next 1-2 weeks to the current > HEAD. > >> On Sat 23-07-2016 17:21 +0200, FRIGN wrote: >> >> On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:54:36 -0800 Britton Kerin >> <britton.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hey Britton, >> >>> dwm needs patches to be good but the patches area is a mess and I >>> couln't get along with devs about fixing it, so I thought a >>> pre-rolled version of dwm might be useful instead: >> >> you really raise a valid point, fortunately, as you may know, there >> are proceedings to clean up the wiki and the progress is already >> pretty good. It's a difficult matter because patches interfere. I >> know of no way to make multiple patches inclusive to each other, in >> many cases it is not possible. There are some things thought that I'd >> like to see in mainline, e.g. removing borders of the window when >> there's only one window in the current tag. >> >> Cheers >> >> FRIGN > > -- > Jan Christoph Ebersbach > I didn’t want some petty, inferior brand of righteousness that comes > from keeping a list of rules when I could get the robust kind that comes > from trusting Christ - God’s righteousness. Phil 3:9
