Re: Managing long patch series

Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-10-26T18:56:46Z

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.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery