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Quilt is good for managing additional patches applied to a package received as a tarball or maintained in another version control system. The stacked organization is proven to be efficient for the management of very large patch sets (more than hundred patches). As matter of fact, it was designed by and for Linux kernel hackers (Andrew Morton, from the -mm branch, is the original author), and its main use by the current upstream maintainer is to manage the (hundreds of) patches against the kernel made for the SUSE distribution.
This package provides seamless integration into Debhelper or CDBS, allowing maintainers to easily add a quilt-based patch management system in their packages. The package also provides some basic support for those not using those tools. See README.Debian for more information.
| Homepage: | http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt |
| Package version: | 0.48-7 |
| Architecture: | all |
| Distribution: | Debian |
| Filename: | quilt_0.48-7_all.deb |
Using quilt with debhelper -------------------------- If you use the dh command provided by debhelper 7, you can simply call it with "dh --with quilt" and dh_quilt_patch/dh_quilt_unpatch will be called at the right time. Otherwise you can manually call dh_quilt_patch / dh_quilt_unpatch at the right place, see their respective manpages for examples. dh supports the --with parameter since debhelpe more»
QUILT MAIL COMMAND ================== The mail command starts up the system editor ($EDITOR, or vi if $EDITOR is undefined) with an template in Internet Message Format (RFC 2822). This template is used to generate an introduction, as well as one message for each patch in the selected range of the series file. The template is used as follows: The headers are used in each message generated, and mo more»
The scripts in this package simplify working with a series of patches.
The usual tasks like applying, refreshing and reversing are supported.
Please see the paper "How To Survive With Many Patches /or/
Introduction to Quilt" for an introduction.
Command reference
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quilt add [-P patch] {file} ...
Add one or more files to the topmost or named patch. Files must be
added to
more»This package uses quilt to manage all modifications to the upstream source. Changes are stored in t more»
DH_QUILT_PATCH(1) Debhelper DH_QUILT_PATCH(1)
NAME
dh_quilt_patch -
more»DH_QUILT_UNPATCH(1) Debhelper DH_QUILT_UNPATCH(1)
NAME
dh_quilt_unpatch
more»GUARDS(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation GUARDS(1)
NAME
guards - select
more»quilt(1) quilt(1)
NAME
quilt - tool to
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