On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:02:29PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hallo Andre, > > On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:45:42 +0100, Andre Prendel wrote: > > Another question for you. How can I get rid of the committed patches > > in quilt? Google don't give me much information about that. Once I > > have committed the patches, I want to remove them from the series. I want > > to remove them completly from quilt without unapplying the > > changes. What's the right approach, do you know? > > quilt unfortunately doesn't support this operation. My own method is > the following: once patches have been applied upstream, I remove them > manually from patches/series, and then rm -rf .pc. Then you can delete > the patch files from the patches subdirectory if you don't want to keep > a copy of them. > > The alternative is to pop the patch before you commit it, apply it > manually (patch -p1 < patches/$(quilt next)), commit it, and the delete > it (quilt delete -rn). > > The lack of this functionality has been discussed on the quilt-dev > mailing list some times ago. Everybody agreed if would be pretty much > needed, unfortunately implementing it in a safe and clear way is not > trivial, because it changes the logic from a stack-based one to a > FIFO-based one. If the implementation is not crystal clear and > ultra-safe it would be very easy to screw up your source tree. Thank you very much for this detailed explanation. Andre > -- > Jean Delvare
