Re: [Quilt-dev] Applying local patches for new upstream releases

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Peter,

On 2005-10-11, Peter Williams wrote:
> It would be nice to have a quilt "archive" command to create a tar
> archive of the patches as it would be very useful for this type of
> thing.  For a start it would ideally only include those files in the
> patches directory that are still relevant to the patch set and this
> would help a lot.

I have been thinking of something similar, although with a slightly
different approach. I sometimes need to verify that I have no unused
files in my patches subdirectory. I do not want to have old files lying
around if I no more need them. Also, for one of my projects, I am
publishing this directory on a regular basis and want to make sure that
I am not including out-of-date stuff. Rather than having quilt generate
the archive (I am fine doing it myself), I just would like a way to
detect, and optionally delete, any out-of-series patch file.

This could be implemented as a separate command or as an extension of the
"series" command, for example "quilt series -o" would print the
out-of-series patch files, and "quilt series -ro" would delete them.
This shouldn't be too hard to implement.

One could run such a command before manually creating an archive from the
patches directory, so that only patches being currently used are
included.

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Jean Delvare