[Quilt-dev] Re: gendiff command

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 16:41, Peter Braam wrote:
> No, this is not how we use it.  We have patch.diff and a family of 
> closely related patches (almost identical say) for other kernels.
> 
> We modify patch.diff.  Now we want to tell someone else what we did to 
> the tree which contains patch.diff, so that they can easily modify all 
> the related patches.
> 
> So this has nothing to do with forking.
> 
> Is this clear?

I think so.

Forking actually is not relevant, anyway. With the snapshot command
(this is what I've called it for now), you would do this:

        $ quilt snapshot
        # do something (push/pop/modify patches, etc.)
        $ quilt diff --snapshot

The result would be a diff between the snapshot and the current state,
no matter how that state looks. Isn't this the functionality you need?


Cheers,
-- 
Andreas Gruenbacher <address@hidden>
SuSE Labs, SuSE Linux AG <http://www.suse.de/>