Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] sensord: Remove leading whitespaces in

[Andre Prendel <andre_prendel@gmx.de>]

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

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