"Phil Quiney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Gabriele > > You need to do something like.... > > 1/ 'quilt pop' to remove the changes > 2/ save the patch file somewhere (located under ./patches/... by default) > 3/ edit the saved patch file to split it as you want > 4/ 'quilt delete' the big patch > 5/ then you should be able to 'quilt import' your split patch files and end up > with a 'series'. I think you need to 'quilt push' after each import (I am > looking at the 'man' page rather than actually trying it).
For step (3) above, I highly recommend the 'filterdiff' tool. It is usually comes as part of the 'patchutils' package on most linux distros. It allows you to split up a patch in various ways, by filename, by hunk etc. and is very useful for these kinds of tasks. Kevin > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of > Gabriele Filosofi > Sent: Mon 11/10/2008 3:17 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: quilt: Is there a simple way to split a patch into two smaller > patches? > > Hi All, > > using quilt I've created a big patch with too many files. > Is there a simple way to split this patch into two smaller patches? > > Thanks > > Gabriele > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.davincidsp.com/mailman/listinfo/davinci-linux-open-source _______________________________________________ Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list [email protected] http://linux.davincidsp.com/mailman/listinfo/davinci-linux-open-source
