On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:29:18 -0700 Randy.Dunlap wrote: > On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:51:01 +0200 Jean Delvare wrote: > > > Hi Randy, > > > > [Randy Dunlap] > > > > > Am I missing some shortcut to drop a patch (that may contain > > > > > patches to multiple files)? > > > > > > > > > > Do I actually have to go thru: > > > > > > > > > > quilt push # make sure that it is applied since 'remove' seems to > > > > > # work only on applied patches > > > > > quilt files # list all of them since I forgot what they are > > > > > quilt remove file1 file2 file3 file4 file5... > > > > > quilt delete drop-this.patch # top patch filename > > > > [Jean Delvare] > > > > I doubt this would work. "quilt remove" restores the files as they were > > > > at the time they were added to the patch, so the above sequence doesn't > > > > actually do anything (besides deleting the patch itself.) > > > > [Randy Dunlap] > > > 1/ The patch was bad/wrong, so I _want_ quilt remove to restore > > > the files to their previous state. That's what I want drop to do > > > (or maybe I should call it "revert"). > > > > You should call it "delete" ;) The behavior you describe is exactly what > > "quilt delete" does. The sequence in your example above (push, remove > > files, delete) is equivalent to "quilt delete -n". > > Darn, you're right. I didn't realize that 'delete' would do the > 'remove(s)' too. > > Hm, sometimes it doesn't work for me, so I'll look into why that is. > It just says: > No patch removed > Patch <patch-filename> is currently applied > > Hm again. This is quilt 0.42. I'll upgrade and try again > (since it works on a different machine with 0.44)...
Yes, 0.44 does the right thing. Thanks again. --- ~Randy _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
