Jean Delvare wrote:
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I am not including out-of-date stuff.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),
Having a quilt command to do it would make it easier from me to make
this functionality available from gquilt :-)
It also isolates the user from the implementation details. I know this
isn't as big an issue with the patches directory as for the rest of the
implementation details but it's still an issue.
Also a logical extension to an "archive" command would be to have an
option to import a archive into a directory. Completing the
functionality the original poster was requesting.
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.
I think this would be a useful feature regardless of whether there was
an archive command. Removal of no longer required back up files would
also be useful.
One could run such a command before manually creating an archive from the
patches directory, so that only patches being currently used are
included.
Peter
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