Re: RFH:quilt and gbp pq

[Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>]

Hi,

The patches are always stored in debian/patches/*. The `gbp pq`
commands are helpers that read files from that path and convert them
into commits on a *temporary* branch, so they are easy to modify,
build with, cherry-pick to another branch for e.g. upstream submission
etc. You should always end a gbp pq session by deleting the extra
branch, which can be done with eg. `gbp pq export --drop`. The use of
gbp pq does not change the permanent structure of the git repository,
but simply helps automate maintenance of the existing files in
debian/patches/*.

See also https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/git-buildpackage/gbp-pq.1.en.html
and https://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/git-buildpackage/manual-html/gbp.patches.html