Comments on: Patch Management http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2006/04/25/patch-management/ Just another GNOME Blogs weblog Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:25:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2006/04/25/patch-management/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2006/04/25/patch-management/#comment-26 FWIW if/when you decide to take a look at "the new fangled RCS systems out there", if you want something like quilt:<p/>- with Mercurial you can use the mq extension (distributed with Mercurial itself)<p/>- with git, there's StGIT<p/>In bzr-land, "bzr shelve" is sometimes compared to quilt, but IME it serves a different purpose and is much more limited. FWIW if/when you decide to take a look at “the new fangled RCS systems out there”, if you want something like quilt:

- with Mercurial you can use the mq extension (distributed with Mercurial itself)

- with git, there’s StGIT

In bzr-land, “bzr shelve” is sometimes compared to quilt, but IME it serves a different purpose and is much more limited.

]]> By: David Nusinow http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2006/04/25/patch-management/comment-page-1/#comment-27 David Nusinow Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2006/04/25/patch-management/#comment-27 One of the coolest things about quilt is that it scales up insanely well for a large codebase. We're using it inside the Debian Xorg packages to manage our patches because the old system simply was too slow to really work. We have well over a hundred patches to that huge codebase and quilt has worked flawlessly. You have to be smarter about it (by using quilt edit) than with other patch systems, but it's an amazing tool to have in the box. We use it inside the packaging system, all of which we store in svn by the way, so quilt can be used as an RCS within a RCS if you want. One of the coolest things about quilt is that it scales up insanely well for a large codebase. We’re using it inside the Debian Xorg packages to manage our patches because the old system simply was too slow to really work. We have well over a hundred patches to that huge codebase and quilt has worked flawlessly. You have to be smarter about it (by using quilt edit) than with other patch systems, but it’s an amazing tool to have in the box. We use it inside the packaging system, all of which we store in svn by the way, so quilt can be used as an RCS within a RCS if you want.

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