Re: [linux-pm] [RFC] userland swsusp

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 08:25 +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 09:10, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 07:20:45AM +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > > 
> > > I've also split the one patch that most people see into what is
> > > currently about 225 smaller patches, each adding only one small part, am
> > > writing descriptions for them all and am preparing to build a git tree
> > > from it.
> > 
> > That's great, I didn't know you were doing this.
> > 
> > I'd recommend using quilt instead of git for something like this,
> > because the odds that you will need to change something in patch number
> > 132 out of 225 is pretty good :)
> 
> Yeah. :) I actually wrote my own 'makepatch' script long before I ever
> heard of quilt, and am still using that. It lets me do the same sort of
> thing. Unfortunately I tend to accumulate further changes at the end of
> the series and then have to shift them back into the right place. It
> would be nice to be able to automate that :)

patch-utils have a 'movepatch' option... which flips 2 patches in order,
even when they overlap.


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