Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Linus Torvalds <address@hidden> Re: log-buf-len dynamic

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>

    > Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:
    > >     > I think you get (a), but (b) includes things like the patch
    > >     > import system that has an automatic "renametool",

    > > Yup.  I'm surprised that a "changeset-utils" package hasn't yet struck
    > > anyone with time to work on it as a good project to start.

    > The renametool thing has been written several times for arch, I think.

    > At least, my tla-update-ids script does this renaming foo automatically
    > (just run it after applying a patch file), as does the python script
    > someone (Jan?) posted earlier, and doesn't tla_load_dirs do something
    > similar?

I was thinking of something more stand-alone that, for example,
accepts a diff(1) patch on stdin and generates a changeset.    And,
for polish, I gather the desire is for a short-cut from a diff in your
mbox to .... something .... (a changeset browser?  a tree with the
patch applied?  an entry in the patch-queue-manager of lore?)

I'm not too concerned about the particular workflow he might want --
more about having a good toolbox of less-than-ad-hoc components from
which anybody's workflow could be assembled easily enough.

-t