Hello Mohammed, On 17/12/2007, Mohammed Adnène Trojette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 16, 2007, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > Attaching the right/working script this time. > > Hello Raphael and thanks for your contribution! > > I've had a very very quick look at your script. But how is your script > more practical than the usual: > > $ zcat file.diff.gz | patch -p1
Your example is only applies patches. My script is used to extract all the changes/patches from a multi-patch (i.e. diff.gz) file. If you ls debian/patches (following the example I used on my first message) you will see a lot of .patch files, which were extracted from the .diff.gz Once that's done, all the patches can be reversed by issuing for i in debian/patches/*; do patch -R -p1 < $i; done Now the source tree is identical to the one from .orig.tar.gz, except of course for the files under debian/. So if a maintainer wants to use quilt to manage the patches, all he needs to do now is fix the rules file and ls debian/patches/ > debian/patches/series This script lets maintainers move from a "all in diff.gz" approach of patches maintenance to a "all under debian/" one. > > I will be happy to add your script, but I am a little reluctant to > add a 15-line script if it does not improve significantly our job as > maintainers. > > Looking forward to hearing from you, > -- > Mohammed Adnène Trojette > Hope that explains what this script does in a better way. Sincerely, -- Atomo64 - Raphael Please avoid sending me Word, PowerPoint or Excel attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Say NO to Microsoft Office broken standard. See http://www.noooxml.org/petition
