Re: [Quilt-dev] Applying local patches for new upstream releases

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 15:31 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> On 2005-10-11, Peter Williams wrote:
> > It would be nice to have a quilt "archive" command to create a tar
> > archive of the patches as it would be very useful for this type of
> > thing.  For a start it would ideally only include those files in the
> > patches directory that are still relevant to the patch set and this
> > would help a lot.
> 
> I have been thinking of something similar, although with a slightly
> different approach. I sometimes need to verify that I have no unused
> files in my patches subdirectory. I do not want to have old files lying
> around if I no more need them. Also, for one of my projects, I am
> publishing this directory on a regular basis and want to make sure that
> I am not including out-of-date stuff. Rather than having quilt generate
> the archive (I am fine doing it myself), I just would like a way to
> detect, and optionally delete, any out-of-series patch file.
> 
> This could be implemented as a separate command or as an extension of the
> "series" command, for example "quilt series -o" would print the
> out-of-series patch files, and "quilt series -ro" would delete them.
> This shouldn't be too hard to implement.

Slightly off topic, but could this command eventually be extended to do
some series file manipulation?  Along the lines of, "quilt series -up
foo.patch" to move a patch up in the series file and "quilt series -down
foo.patch" to move it down?  (The command naming is horrible, I know.
It's the concept I'm interested in).

josh