From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6273 invoked by alias); 26 Oct 2007 18:56:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 6261 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Oct 2007 18:56:46 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from NaN.false.org (HELO nan.false.org) (208.75.86.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:56:39 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85F7198340; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:56:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (22.svnf5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.183.55]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 598A49833F; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:56:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1IlUME-0008JJ-QC; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:56:34 -0400 Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:26:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Jim Blandy Cc: Ulrich Weigand , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Managing long patch series Message-ID: <20071026185634.GA31923@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Jim Blandy , Ulrich Weigand , gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-09) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-10/txt/msg00720.txt.bz2 On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 11:51:02AM -0700, Jim Blandy wrote: > I've tried using quilt, but if one doesn't keep very careful track of > what's going on things can get very tangled. The Emacs mode helped > somewhat, but had other flaws, so I set it aside. I usually do it with quilt plus the emacs mode now. What flaws? The only one I've noticed as a real inconvenience is trouble adding new files, but a talented Lisp hacker could probably fix it in moments. It's still mildly error prone, but popping everything and doing cvs diff is good at turning up anything I've missed. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery