On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 07:47:10PM +0100, Enrico Scholz wrote: > Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underw...@gmail.com> writes: > > > I have used make patch quite a bit when developing patches. I guess > > it's just a wrapper around gendiff though, so it maybe redundant i.e. > > in my use case I could have been using gendiff. > > fwiw, 'gendiff' does not retain comments in patches and fails when one > file is touched by multiple patches. I wrote a wrapper around 'quilt' > which is used like
Iirc there is a rediff target to keep the comments in a spec. gendiff works with multiple patches if one only wants to modify the last patch and the patches are applied with the right backup-suffixes in %patch. > > | %apply -n23 -p1 > > This expands to > > | quilt import -p 1 %PATCH23 > | quilt push -f > > resp. > > | %patch23 -p1 > > on systems without this macro. Refreshing and developing of patches is > very easy in this way. Would you please provide more instructions about how to implement it and how to use it? Regards Till
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