Import layout of Quilt v3 packages

James Westby james.westby at canonical.com
Tue Feb 8 13:52:25 UTC 2011


On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:00:25 +0000, Max Bowsher <maxb at f2s.com> wrote:
> Therefore, what about checking in the patched code, without any quilt
> metadata (.pc dir) but with a flag file that triggers bzr-builddeb to
> write out the appropriate metadata whenever a working tree is built for
> such a branch?
> 
> (Writing out the metadata would consist of copying the series file to
> .pc/applied-patches, and reverse-applying each patch in reverse order,
> stashing the resultant modified file in .pc/<patchname>/<filename> for
> each patch)

This would work for checkout. What are the implications for merge etc?

Thanks,

James



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