Hi Jean On 3 December 2014 at 09:28, Jean Delvare <[email protected]> wrote: >> Le Wednesday 17 September 2014 à 22:38 +0000, Martin Panter a écrit : >> > On 17/09/2014, Aristeu Rozanski <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > The next step, my usual "quilt push -f" didn't quite did the expected, >> > > it just ran patch without -f and patch just thought it was a full revert >> > > based on the first hunk. Now I understand that "quilt push -f -q" will >> > > make quilt use "-f" for patch, but here's the problem: using quilt push >> > > without -q is supposed to be "interactive" except it isn't after the >> > > color output support: >> > > . . . >> > >> > I found this behaviour annoying when I used to use Quilt a long time >> > ago (possibly even before colour output support?). >> >> . . . Your patch being dated 23 Sep 2009, I guess you >> wrote it long after color support was added.
You are probably right; either way it was a long time ago :) >> > > 1) could simply use -f for patch always, and have -q still >> > > useful to supress further messages [Old patch snipped] >> Applying something like your patch would mean that there no longer is a >> way to apply patches interactively. But well, as you demonstrated, there >> hasn't been a way to actually do that since January 2005 and I can't >> remember hearing any complaint about that, so I suppose this is >> acceptable. >> (...) >> For now I would go with option #1, for the reason that it's the most >> simple one and it sticks to (and finally documents) the way quilt has >> worked for the past 9 years. Anyone who needs more will have to come up >> with the code required to make it fly. >> >> Martin, Aristeu, can any of you please submit a patch implementing >> option #1 that properly applies on top of the most recent version of >> quilt? Thanks. > > I would like to get this fixed now as I just hit the bug once again and > it pissed me off. Do you have an updated patch ready, or should I do it > myself? I’ll have a look at getting my patch working again with the current version of Quilt tonight. Let you know how I go in a couple hours. _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
