[mythtv] writing patches that build on not yet committed patches.

Janne Grunau janne-mythtv at grunau.be
Tue May 23 01:08:50 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 23 May 2006 02:39, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
> > quilt.
>
> Quilt sounds interesting. I'll have to check it out.

Quilt does a good job for managing patches. It's not optimal for writing 
patches. I forget too often to add the files before editing them.

> Personally I setup my own SVN with a trunk mirrored (manually) from
> the main Myth trunk. I then branch that trunk to my own dev branch
> and work on that.

You might want to take a look at svk. It should make your local 
branching easier,

HTH Janne


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