Hi Andreas, [Jean Delvare] > > The "diff" command of quilt currently prints a message on stderr in > > certain circumstances: > > > > More recent patches modify files in patch X > > > > And this is true, but I don't quite see how this constitutes an > > error. > > > > This seems to be more of an additional information of arguable > > interest than an error. Or am I missing something?
[Andreas Gruenbacher] > Yes, it's not an error but only a warning. No error is returned. Actually, an error value (1) *is* returned, so maybe we could fix at least that if you think it's not correct. What I am personally concerned about here is stderr though, not the return value. > Maybe we could make that more obvious. I disagree with your > assessment that the information is irrelevant though: the user may > have modified some of the files that patches further on top of the > stack modify as well, expecting the changes to show up in the below > patch, but they won't. This could cause a lot of confusion. I don't understand. Could you please detail a concrete scenario where this message would appear and would be desired? > The diff command is also about seeing what will be in a patch after > the next refresh. The manual page doesn't say that. Maybe we should make it clearer? I have always wondered whether "quilt diff" was getting the data from patches/* of from .pc/* and the current files. It would be the latter if I read you correctly. Thanks, -- Jean Delvare _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
