git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: Develop a patch series with git?

From
Shourya Shukla <shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 11, 2020, 13:40 UTC
Message-ID
<20200211134022.7975-1-shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<trinity-f39d7ed5-e4c9-45fe-944c-b5cb101cfdcd-1581412940557@3c-app-gmx-bap62>
Hello Steve,
> My question is whether there is git functionality to replace quilt.
> Or is the combination of quilt and git common?

I think we can use interactive rebase[1] as well as 'git am'[2] (am = apply mail) to apply a series of patches from a mailbox.

In the case of, let's say a dependency missing on your end, you can do an interactive rebase using 'git rebase -i' to edit your _mini-commits_ which you will be making on applying the patches to include the dependencies. One can also 'squash' commits together(i.e. meld multiple commits into one) in case you want a smaller commit history or you think there is a redundancy in any of your commits.

BTW, I think that 'git quiltimport' is quite old now right? And maybe even obsolete?

Best, Shourya Shukla

[1]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Rewriting-History [2]: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-am

Previous: Steve KellerNext: Jeff King
Message 2 of 4 in “Develop a patch series with git?”
  1. Steve KellerFeb 11, 2020
  2. Shourya ShuklaFeb 11, 2020
  3. Jeff KingFeb 11, 2020
  4. Johannes SchindelinFeb 12, 2020

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.