On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 03:21:10PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
First, I think it's wacky to maintain patch files in revision
control.
If you want to look back at history, you're looking at a diff of a diff,
which is just incomprehensible. The right way to do this in my opinion
is to have each patch be a direct branch of the upstream source. If you
have patch interdependencies, then you create a new branch which merges
from the interdependent branches, just like how you have to adjust the
patch files now.
It would be neat if I could do:
Patch:
cvs://cvs.fedora.fedhat.com/....