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Re: [Quilt-dev] [RFC][PATCH] quilt commit command


From: Martin Quinson
Subject: Re: [Quilt-dev] [RFC][PATCH] quilt commit command
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 11:28:53 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 03:50:11PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 09:58:53PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > On Wednesday 18 May 2005 19:32, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 07:52:50PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > > I have some other thoughts on how it could work (such as adding a
> > > > "committed-patches" file, etc) but I thought I would test the waters
> > > > first.  Would such a command be accepted for quilt?
> > >
> > > I thought for sure this would elicit some kind of comment.  Is it just 
> > > that
> > > nobody has had the time to look at the patch?

I usually leave to Andreas all important decisions. It's far more convinient
for me ;)

> > I didn't have enough time so far, sorry. From a very brief look the command 
> > seems to be quite specific, and I wouldn't really call this a commit. There 
> > are users who keep the patches themselves under version control, and in 
> > that 
> > context a commit is totally different.

I'm in that kind of people. Indeed, the name is bad for me. 

> Ok, I'm not too concerned with the name.  It's the functionality of the 
> command
> that I would like to get added.  Basically, you're done with a patch and now 
> you
> want to have quilt "forget" a patch is applied.
> 
> It could be called "quilt finalize" perhaps?  I'm open to suggestions.

If Andreas approves the functionality (which is good, IMHO), finalize would
be a much better name. But there's a "if" in my sentence... ;)

Bye, Mt.

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