Hi, I also keep a patched version of dwm at github.com/jceb/dwm-patches that stacks all the patches in order to smoothly apply them. This is also how I develop my patch using quilt.
Unfortunately, it's extremely hard to port interwoven patches back to mainline. I have some tooling at github.com/jceb/dwm-clean-patches that reduces the pain to the bare minimum but even this is a lot of pain and time. Personally, I'd recommend newbies that want to use a patched version to find someone who's maintaining a "fork". Maybe these "forks" could be listed in the patches section of the wiki. What do you think? Jan Christoph PS: I'll update my share of patches in the next 1-2 weeks to the current HEAD. On Sat 23-07-2016 17:21 +0200, FRIGN wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:54:36 -0800 Britton Kerin > <britton.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey Britton, > > > dwm needs patches to be good but the patches area is a mess and I > > couln't get along with devs about fixing it, so I thought a > > pre-rolled version of dwm might be useful instead: > > you really raise a valid point, fortunately, as you may know, there > are proceedings to clean up the wiki and the progress is already > pretty good. It's a difficult matter because patches interfere. I > know of no way to make multiple patches inclusive to each other, in > many cases it is not possible. There are some things thought that I'd > like to see in mainline, e.g. removing borders of the window when > there's only one window in the current tag. > > Cheers > > FRIGN > -- Jan Christoph Ebersbach I didn’t want some petty, inferior brand of righteousness that comes from keeping a list of rules when I could get the robust kind that comes from trusting Christ - God’s righteousness. Phil 3:9
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