Re: [Quilt-dev] issue with quilt push -f

[Martin Panter]

Hi Jean

On 3 December 2014 at 09:28, Jean Delvare <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Le Wednesday 17 September 2014 à 22:38 +0000, Martin Panter a écrit :
>> > On 17/09/2014, Aristeu Rozanski <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > > The next step, my usual "quilt push -f" didn't quite did the expected,
>> > > it just ran patch without -f and patch just thought it was a full revert
>> > > based on the first hunk. Now I understand that "quilt push -f -q" will
>> > > make quilt use "-f" for patch, but here's the problem: using quilt push
>> > > without -q is supposed to be "interactive" except it isn't after the
>> > > color output support:
>> > > . . .
>> >
>> > I found this behaviour annoying when I used to use Quilt a long time
>> > ago (possibly even before colour output support?).
>>
>> . . . Your patch being dated 23 Sep 2009, I guess you
>> wrote it long after color support was added.

You are probably right; either way it was a long time ago :)

>> > > 1) could simply use -f for patch always, and have -q still
>> > >   useful to supress further messages

[Old patch snipped]

>> Applying something like your patch would mean that there no longer is a
>> way to apply patches interactively. But well, as you demonstrated, there
>> hasn't been a way to actually do that since January 2005 and I can't
>> remember hearing any complaint about that, so I suppose this is
>> acceptable.
>> (...)
>> For now I would go with option #1, for the reason that it's the most
>> simple one and it sticks to (and finally documents) the way quilt has
>> worked for the past 9 years. Anyone who needs more will have to come up
>> with the code required to make it fly.
>>
>> Martin, Aristeu, can any of you please submit a patch implementing
>> option #1 that properly applies on top of the most recent version of
>> quilt? Thanks.
>
> I would like to get this fixed now as I just hit the bug once again and
> it pissed me off. Do you have an updated patch ready, or should I do it
> myself?

I’ll have a look at getting my patch working again with the current
version of Quilt tonight. Let you know how I go in a couple hours.