Re: [Quilt-dev] quilt import worked around

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 06:35, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Well, I just added all my patches to the patches directory, and put all their 
> names into the series file.  This seems to work, bypassing "quilt import" 
> entirely.

Yes, you can always do that.

> Now, when I do a "quilt refresh" I notice that the output has these "Index" 
> lines, then double-underscore.  Any reason for this?  I'm curious why the 
> file 
> was not made to look like the output of "diff" when doing directories.

The output more resembles what "cvs diff" produces. I find that this
greatly improves the readability of patches. The Index line is defined
by POSIX.


> As it is, the quilt-generated diffs look totally different than the 
> externally-generated ones, and this is not desireable.

If you don't like it, you can always change it.

Cheers,
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Andreas Gruenbacher <address@hidden>
SUSE Labs, SUSE LINUX AG