[Quilt-dev] [PATCH 0/3] Add auto-refresh feature to pop and push commands

[Jean Delvare]

Hi all,

As I was giving a talk about quilt two weeks ago at the Suse Labs
Conference, two users asked me if it would be possible to implement an
auto-refresh feature to make it easier to refresh a whole patch set.

This is my attempt to grant this wish. I decided to implement it as a
--refresh option to the pop and push commands. That way, the user can
use "quilt push -a --refresh" or "quilt pop -a --refresh" in order to
refresh the whole patch set. Refreshing a subset of the patch series is
also possible that way.

A different approach would have been to extend the functionality of the
"refresh" command itself to support a range of patches instead of a
single patch, however this seemed more difficult to implement as you
can't always refresh patches: they must be applied first, and no other
patch must shadow files modified by the patch being refreshed. So this
would have required a major rewrite of the "refresh" command, which I'd
rather avoid.

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support