quilt for patch management?

[Andrew Haley]

Robert Schuster wrote:

> ever since fiddling with IcedTea's patches I was wondering why the
> Makefiles make no use of the quilt tool to manage patches. The tool
> would still allow us to have a directory where to place the patches and
> would make it more easy to manually apply them.
> 
> Basically
> 	patch -p0 < <patch>
> would become
> 	quilt import -p0 <patch>
> 
> and finally
> 	quilt push -a
> 
> If someone wants to investigate manually quilt push/pop are there.
> 
> Is this something you IcedTea developers would be interested in?

You haven't really explained what the point of this is.

Andrew.