quilt for patch management?

[Martin Buchholz]

Mercurial has its own quilt-like system, "mq - mercurial queues",
which I use for my own patch management.

I have wondered how icedtea manages patches.
If I was going to hack on icedtea, the first thing I would try
is to import the icedtea patches into mq.

The biggest benefit of mq is the improved workflow:

hg qgoto PATCH
hack...test...
hg qrefresh

The directory containing the patches would itself be under source control.
(IcedTea already does this)

Martin


On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 07:43, Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat.com> wrote:
> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>> The time spent switching to quilt would be better spent getting
>> patches upstream.
>
> Definitely.
>
> Cheers,
> Gary
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