Hi Peter, Jean Delvare wrote: > > 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 I am not including out-of-date stuff.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),
On 2005-10-11, Peter Williams answered: > 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. You're right. I never meant to suggest that an "archive" command was not wanted, just that the patches/ subdirectory cleanup feature was needed regardless of any "archive" command. You seem to agree on that. > 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. Agreed as well. I guess it would be a simple matter of invoking tar the right way, with some safety checks to make sure we're not breaking anything? > 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. I have been thinking of it, but on second thought, I can't think of a scenario that would leave garbage in the .pc directory. Unless the user goes manually hacking files, but then I guess he/she is on his/her own. -- Jean Delvare _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
