Improved quilt patch handling

Steve Langasek steve.langasek at ubuntu.com
Wed Feb 1 05:37:37 UTC 2012


Hi Jelmer,

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 01:02:43PM +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>  * patches are automatically unapplied in relevant trees before merges
>  * before a commit, bzr will warn if you have some applied and some
> unapplied quilt patches

Very nice to see this quilt integration land!

>  * If there are patches to unapply for the OTHER tree, bzr will
> currently create a separate checkout and unapply the patches
>    there. This may have performance consequences for big packages.

If the quilt patches are stored in the branch, that means we have the
original files present under .pc, right?  Would it be sensible to optimize
this by availing ourselves of these files for the merge, or is that
violating too many layers? :)

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