Re: [Quilt-dev] [PATCH] Add a rename command

[jerome lacoste]

On 6/9/05, Jean Delvare <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jerome,
> 
> [Jerome Lacoste]
> > With regard to import, as you refer to it, do you always have to do
> > both quilt import followed by quilt push to detect errors? Is there an
> > action that does both in one?
> 
> I don't think there is, and am not convinced there should be.

OK. Agreed.

> Also, if you have good reasons to think that a given patch will fail to
> apply, or just want to test it but don't really want to apply it, a
> good old "patch -p1 --dry-run < some.diff" will do. 

I agree. That's what I do now. But I've found cases where a given
patch would apply cleanly with patch but wouldn't import correctly.
Happened this morning.... Using quilt 0.39 (debian sarge).

Using this patch:
http://jira.public.thoughtworks.org/secure/attachment/10366/cmsynergy_patch_0608.txt

I finally imported the patch manually by doing something like

quilt new mypatch.diff
grep +++ patch.txt | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | xargs -l1 quilt add
patch  < patch.txt

(command line from memory, it wasn't exactly that)

J