Re: [Quilt-dev] [patch 7/7] add --select option to mail command

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Martin,

On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 21:27:59 +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> Description:
>  .
>  When you want to only send out part of a series, this is not
>  trivial with quilt. This patch adds a --select option to the
>  mail command to allow editing a copy of the series file before
>  sending mail so that only those patches you keep in that file
>  are sent.

Not trivial, really? You can pass the first and the last patch on the
command line, this seems quite simple to me. That was only implemented
[1] and documented [2] in quilt 0.47, while the Debian bug was
originally created for 0.46, maybe this is why?

The only thing your patch allows which isn't possible today is removing
some patches inside the range. But that's quite risky, as there's no
guarantee that the resulting series will apply cleanly, let alone
build...

In general I doubt there's really a use case for this, I suspect people
are always emailing contiguous ranges of patches, and quilt allows for
that since April 2007.

So I think you can just drop this patch.

[1] 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/quilt.git/commit/?id=fc41123a1b56b3d93ae83432b23bb10e67ae96bb
[2] 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/quilt.git/commit/?id=19b6aaf2f81ded0ee807abc2a6768c9f7ae4bee2

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Jean Delvare
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