Using quilt to store patches

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi.dogguy at pps.jussieu.fr> [2009.05.22.1602 +0200]:
> - Modify other patches and rebase (if needed).

I don't know what you mean with that.

> - Move back to branch master and save patches:
> 
>     rm -f debian/patches/*
>     git format-patch -N -o debian/patches upstream...patch-queue | \
>         sed -e 's%debian/patches/%%' > debian/patches/series
>     git branch -d patch-queue
> 
> Now:
> - all patches are saved in debian/patches/ and can be used directly with
> quilt.

Yes, and you can use TopGit to actually develop features on all
those TopGit branches, from which you can create that initial patch
series.

Now we need to figure out how to get the conflict resolutions you
made during your git-am loop back onto the TopGit branches where
their features are developed.

This is the advantage of TopGit: it's centred around the idea of
keeping changes to a feature very close to the feature's branch.

Inevitably, there will be dependencies between patches.

> Is this a known way of managing patches? or are there similar methods?

You should look at TopGit and help us remove the complexity that
deters you currently. ;)

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