Re: [Quilt-dev] Idea: Tree instead of Stack?

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On 11/16/07, Hans Fugal <address@hidden> wrote:
> I feel somewhat claustrophobic with just a linear series of patches.
> It's useful to sometimes deal with independent stacks of patches, which
> can be accomplished using symlinks of the QUILT_PATCHES and QUILT_PC
> variables. But sometimes you might like to have several stacks depend on
> another stack. I would love to be able to work with a tree of patches
> instead. An example use case for this would be fixing compilation errors
> of project X on the trunk (maybe it's old and doesn't compile cleanly
> with modern gcc, or maybe you're on a different architecture), then
> having two or more independent patch stacks that depend on the
> compilation fixes.

I think this is a terribly cool idea!  I wish I had the time to develop it.

Dustin

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