[Quilt-dev] Re: quilt

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Wednesday 23 July 2003 22:49, Peter Braam wrote:
> A further requirement for quilt came up in a discussion today.
>
> We have seen several instances where
>  - patches were applied
>  - the series file or some of the patches that are applied were updated in
>    CVS.
>
> Often the developer has typed CVS update before popping all the patches.

Happened to me, too.

> Quilt could easily help.  A patch can change, in the series patches may be
> added, removed or re-ordered.
>
>  - when applying a patch
>     - warn if the patch is newer than current time
>     - set mtime of the backup file to current time
>     - set mtime of patched file to current time
>  - when popping, "quilt check"
>     - warn if patches are newer than backup file
>     - if so use/suggest pop -f as the mechanism
>     - warn if series file has changed
>     - if so, use `quilt applied` for popping, not series file.
>
> Looks like another tiny refinement where we can get a pretty optimal
> situation easily.

In fact it's a bug that pop looks at anything but the applied patches. It's 
not too hard to fix though; I will probably check in the attached (untested) 
patch tomorrow.

I have to tink a little about the timestamp stuff.

-- Andreas.

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