Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Tim Bird wrote: >> I agree with Greg. I have several trees that have over 1000 patches. > > Why are you using quilt and not a VCS for those heavy cases? I'm unaware of a VCS that does the same thing quilt does. Specifically, quilt allows you to manage patch boundaries, either keeping or preserving original patches as you see fit, and allowing easy re-ordering of changesets. This is important when managing large change sets that are externally created, not accepted upstream, and locally adapted.
>> I haven't looked at the details of what you are suggesting, but >> any change that slows 'quilt pop' down by a factor of 3 is not >> acceptable (to me). > > It would be nice to loose less speed but from the point of view > of a distribution maker, having it as a shell script simplifies > the bootstrapping of a new port: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=363659 I see your problem, but degrading the performance for everyone else doesn't seem like a good deal. -- Tim ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America ============================= _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
