On 11/16/07, Hans Fugal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I feel somewhat claustrophobic with just a linear series of patches. > It's useful to sometimes deal with independent stacks of patches, which > can be accomplished using symlinks of the QUILT_PATCHES and QUILT_PC > variables. But sometimes you might like to have several stacks depend on > another stack. I would love to be able to work with a tree of patches > instead. An example use case for this would be fixing compilation errors > of project X on the trunk (maybe it's old and doesn't compile cleanly > with modern gcc, or maybe you're on a different architecture), then > having two or more independent patch stacks that depend on the > compilation fixes.
I think this is a terribly cool idea! I wish I had the time to develop it. Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
