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

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Thursday 09 June 2005 13:18, jerome lacoste wrote:
> [...] 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)

Strange; quilt uses nothing other than patch itself. It would help if you 
could reproduce which commands failed with this patch on which codebase. 
Likely a ``quilt --trace ...'' would suffice to fix the problem.

-- Andreas.