[Quilt-dev] Re: patches/header-file-2.diff

[John Vandenberg]

On 1/22/06, Andreas Gruenbacher <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Allow quilt header to operate on patches out of the series
>
> When and why do we need this?

This is handy to view or edit the header of patches that are not in
the series, e.g. forked patches, a patch before it is imported, a
patch after it has been removed from the series.

My intentions for the patch params series was to easily define what
types of patches each command can accept, being as liberal as
possible.  In the case of the header command, it doesnt depend on it's
patch parameter being part of the series, so IMO it would be nice to
be able to take advantage of its functionality on any patch file.

--
John