From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5751 invoked by alias); 29 Oct 2007 15:15:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 5743 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Oct 2007 15:15:48 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:15:46 +0000 Received: (qmail 8951 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2007 15:15:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (jimb@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 29 Oct 2007 15:15:45 -0000 To: Ulrich Weigand Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Managing long patch series References: <20071026185634.GA31923@caradoc.them.org> From: Jim Blandy Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:11:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20071026185634.GA31923@caradoc.them.org> (Daniel Jacobowitz's message of "Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:56:34 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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/msg00755.txt.bz2 Daniel Jacobowitz writes: > 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. Quilt (without Emacs support) looked wonderful at first, but then I found I would get confused by changes made to files outside the patch. quilt.el fixed that specific problem, but there were also bugs that got under my skin. I did look at the lisp, and I was willing to hack on it a bit, but it was clear the author wasn't very familiar with Emacs Lisp, and I got worried about getting distracted from work that, like, someone actually cared about me finishing. :) Perhaps I could have made it work, but it left me with the strong impression that the problem hadn't been thought through carefully. I'm happy to invest a solid idea that happens to have bugs, but if it seems like the big idea isn't solid...