Re: Develop a patch series with git?

> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 10:22:20AM +0100, Steve Keller wrote:
>
> > I wonder how git supports developing a series of small patches.  In my
> > usual development I go back and forth along a series of patches before
> > I can commit them all.  I use quilt for that.
> >
> > Say I want to add feature FOO and start a patch "FOO" editing some
> > source file.  In the process of doing so I realize that I need an
> > extension of some function to base my patch on, so I do "quilt pop" to
> > undo patch FOO and insert a new patch BAR and then re-apply FOO by
> > calling quilt push.  No I can use the new extension from BAR in my
> > current patch FOO.  The patch series often contains quite a number of
> > patches and I push, pop, and edit these patches quite often.  Only
> > when everything is done I use git commit all the patches into the
> > repository.
> >
> > My question is whether there is git functionality to replace quilt.
> > Or is the combination of quilt and git common?
>
> Another responder mentioned "rebase -i", which is the most direct
> equivalent.