On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:42:01AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Tim Bird wrote:
> > I agree with Greg. I have several trees that have over 1000 patches.
>
> Why are you using quilt and not a VCS for those heavy cases?
I use trees of over 1000 patches working just fine with quilt. And
those patches themselves are in a VCS (git to be exact, you can see it
at:
http://en.opensuse.org/Kernel_Git
if you are interested)
The model of patches against a common tarball is quite powerful, and
works very well.
> > I haven't looked at the details of what you are suggesting, but
> > any change that slows 'quilt pop' down by a factor of 3 is not
> > acceptable (to me).
>
> It would be nice to loose less speed but from the point of view
> of a distribution maker, having it as a shell script simplifies
> the bootstrapping of a new port:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=363659
So, writing quilt in C would actually solve your problems :)
Hm, if I ever get bored, that might be an interesting exercise...
thanks,
greg k-h
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