Bug#733504: quilt: please sort order of files in diffs ASCIIbetically

2013-12-30 Thread Martin Quinson
Wait a sec. There is no bug in this session! The file order in the patch is exactly the one I described in my previous mail: "in the order of patch file for the files already in the patch, and afterward alphabetically for the new files" The patch file order is preserved over the alphabetic one. T

Bug#733504: quilt: please sort order of files in diffs ASCIIbetically

2013-12-30 Thread Martin Quinson
Thanks a lot for that, this gives me something to work on. Mt. On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 07:38:40PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Martin Quinson dixit: > > >And I claim that quilt is not doing this. You have to provide some > >sort of evidence of the bug, actually. > > $ echo foo >foo; echo fnor

Bug#733504: quilt: please sort order of files in diffs ASCIIbetically

2013-12-30 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Martin Quinson dixit: >And I claim that quilt is not doing this. You have to provide some >sort of evidence of the bug, actually. $ echo foo >foo; echo fnord >fnord; echo zulu >zulu $ quilt new bar; quilt add fnord zulu Patch bar is now on top File fnord added to patch bar File zulu added to patc

Bug#733504: quilt: please sort order of files in diffs ASCIIbetically

2013-12-30 Thread Martin Quinson
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 02:43:48PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Martin Quinson dixit: > > >In lack of this, I blame dpkg for the behavior you saw, not quilt. > > No, what I meant is: it got fixed in dpkg, but quilt still writes > diffs with files in arbitrary (as opposed to fixed) order, which

Bug#733504: quilt: please sort order of files in diffs ASCIIbetically

2013-12-30 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Martin Quinson dixit: >In lack of this, I blame dpkg for the behavior you saw, not quilt. No, what I meant is: it got fixed in dpkg, but quilt still writes diffs with files in arbitrary (as opposed to fixed) order, which is what I want to fix. Every program writing a diff that contains changes t

Bug#733504: quilt: please sort order of files in diffs ASCIIbetically

2013-12-30 Thread Martin Quinson
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 08:57:46AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 29 Dec 2013, Martin Quinson wrote: > > I checked a bit more, and the documentation is a bit misleading here > > as the order of a find is used when --sort is not provided. So this is > > not the patch order at all. > > So t

Bug#733504: quilt: please sort order of files in diffs ASCIIbetically

2013-12-30 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 29 Dec 2013, Martin Quinson wrote: > I checked a bit more, and the documentation is a bit misleading here > as the order of a find is used when --sort is not provided. So this is > not the patch order at all. So this is the thing to fix as the order of find might differ when you generate t

Bug#733504: quilt: please sort order of files in diffs ASCIIbetically

2013-12-29 Thread Martin Quinson
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 02:34:24PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Package: quilt > Version: 0.60-2 > Severity: important > > Hi, > > this is the companion bug for the same problem in dpkg-source --commit > reported as: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=689193 > > The severity in

Bug#733504: quilt: please sort order of files in diffs ASCIIbetically

2013-12-29 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Package: quilt Version: 0.60-2 Severity: important Hi, this is the companion bug for the same problem in dpkg-source --commit reported as: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=689193 The severity in quilt is higher because this is quilt’s primary objective (managing diffs) and the im