dpatch vs. quilt [was: Re: RFS: proxycheck -- link]
Frank Küster wrote:
> There are also other alternatives to dpatch; one is Debian-specific and
> i keep forgetting its name, and there's quilt. The main advantage of
> quilt IMHO is that it doesn't duplicate the whole tree when editing and
> updating the patch, which can be time- and disk-consuming in large
> projects. Instead it keeps a list of files for the patch one is editing
> and only keeps copies of these.
Out of curiosity, does quilt have a mechanism similar to dpatch that
allows you to treat shell scripts as "patches"? My inability to find
such a feature was the main reason I opted for dpatch over quilt in the
Cernlib package -- I needed to move a bunch of files around within the
source, and doing so with a pure patch system will result in huge and
fragile diff files (two copies of each file to be moved, which breaks if
upstream changes any of them!). But now it sounds like I'm missing out
on some features by not using quilt.
regards,
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