Re: [Gnu-arch-users] reminder: winning smallish project

[Robert Collins]

On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 16:03, Robert Anderson wrote:
> Looking for a fun sure-fire arch contribution?
> 
> Implement a --no-patch-log option to dopatch (and if you get that far,
> mkpatch).
> 
> This would ignore patch-log entries for the application (or generation)
> of patchsets.  This would be especially handy for use in combination
> with the --reverse flag to dopatch.
> 
> For example, if you want to revert the effect of patch-7, and commit the
> resulting change, you'd like to do:
> 
> tla get-patch cat--branch--0--patch-7
> tla dopatch --reverse cat--branch--0--patch-7.patches
> 
> But this also removes the patch-log entries for patch-7, which is
> definitely not what you want.  Rather, you ought to be able to do:

Why is it 'definitely not what you want' ?

I backed out colin walters explicit commit behaviour patch in precisely
that fashion.

Rob
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