On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:16:17PM +0200, Remy Bohmer wrote:
> What is the intended workflow for the PTXCONF_SETUP_PATCHIN_GIT
> developer setting?
> I am figuring out how it is supposed to work and if it could (finally)
> be used for a workflow like this:
> 1) Extract source package
> 2) patch sources while building up git-tree
> 3) build the tree...
> 
> Now here comes the interesting part:
> 4) Developer modifies a source file in the package
> 5) 'ptxdist go' starts, but complains about a non-clean tree and maybe
> even fails the build, or

this is difficult to do. autogen.sh will also modify files. Or make if the
source package is not clean.

> 5a) automagically exports the changes to the patches tree, or
> 5b) automagically exports only the committed changes to the patches tree...

PTXdist master creates a git alias to export the patches: 'git ptx-patches'
doing anything automagically is problematic. It will modify patches that
didn't really change.

mol

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