Question about dist-cvs make targets
Jesse Keating
jkeating at redhat.com
Thu Jan 7 19:20:34 UTC 2010
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 19:47 +0100, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I have used make patch quite a bit when developing patches. I guess
> > it's just a wrapper around gendiff though, so it maybe redundant i.e.
> > in my use case I could have been using gendiff.
>
> fwiw, 'gendiff' does not retain comments in patches and fails when one
> file is touched by multiple patches. I wrote a wrapper around 'quilt'
> which is used like
>
> | %apply -n23 -p1
>
> This expands to
>
> | quilt import -p 1 %PATCH23
> | quilt push -f
>
> resp.
>
> | %patch23 -p1
>
> on systems without this macro. Refreshing and developing of patches is
> very easy in this way.
>
>
> Enrico
>
I think the patch target could be replaced by my exploded tree with git
approach.
--
Jesse Keating
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