2010/1/19 BVK Chaitanya <bvk.gro...@gmail.com>: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Colin D Bennett <co...@gibibit.com> wrote:
>>> >>> # create a patch and send to mailing list >>> grub$ bzr diff -r submit: > ~/my-issue-fix.diff >> >> Why not use “bzr send -o ~/my-issue-fix.patch” to create a merge >> directive+patch+revision bundle? The benefit of bzr send over plain bzr >> diff is that individual revisions within the change are preserved, >> which can provide richer history. Merge directives can simply be >> applied with “bzr merge my-issue-fix.patch”. >> > > I haven't seen anybody sending "bzr send" patches in the ML, so I Perhaps they did not know or did not need to. AFAICT there isn't any rebase feature in bzr so sending these is the only option for longer lasting local branches. > didn't want to introduce something new. Is its format compatible with > regular patch tool? Yes, they do include something that looks like a regular patch. Did not try applying it, though. Thanks Michal _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
