Quilt?  <http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt>

What workflow are you trying to accomplish?  I'm not sure I understand what a 
"changelist" is in this context and how bugzilla-tool would support them.

Dave



>
>From: John Abd-El-Malek <j...@google.com>
>To: Ojan Vafai <o...@chromium.org>
>Cc: WebKit Development <webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org>; Mark Rowe 
><mr...@apple.com>
>Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 5:11:53 PM
>Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Changes to prepare-ChangeLog
>
>>To add another tangent to this thread: one thing I don't like about ChangeLog 
>>files is that they make it impossible to have multiple concurrent changes in 
>>the same checkout.  Yes I know that some people use git to get around this, 
>>while others use the svn-apply/svn-unapply scripts.  But I feel these are 
>>just workarounds to get around limitations of the current tools.  We should 
>>fix the tools instead.  If we don't require to change one central file for 
>>each change, then bugzilla-tool can be modified to support changelists.
>
>
>On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Ojan Vafai <o...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
>>>While having consistency in changelog descriptions is nice, I'm not sure we 
>>>need to explicitly deal with the case of having multiple authors or multiple 
>>>bugs for a change. Those are rare enough situations that it's fine for 
>>>people to include that information however they want.
>>
>>
>>Or, if you don't agree with me, we can at least make those a separate 
>>discussion. It would be nice if this discussion could focus on what goes in 
>>the default text of a changelog description.
>>
>>
>>
>>The original goal here was to reduce the number of patches that get r-'ed for 
>>unnecessary changelog errors. Multiple authors rarely, if ever, results in an 
>>r-. Similarly, multiple bugs is rarely an issue for new contributors.
>>
>>
>>Ojan
>>
>>
>>On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Mark Rowe <mr...@apple.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>>>On 2009-07-09, at 08:02, Joe Mason wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>>>>Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Now that my attention has been called to it, it's starting to bug me 
>>>>>>>>>that everyone formats their ChangeLog entries slightly differently. 
>>>>>>>>>How about this as the canonical format (with prepare-ChangeLog 
>>>>>>>>>encouraging it)?
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>That reminds me: how do we format a patch with multiple authors?  I've 
>>>>>>>>been doing this:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>>>>2009-07-08  Maciej Stachowiak  <m...@apple.com>
>>>>>>>>>>       Make prepare-ChangeLog less shouty
>>>>>>>>>>       https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27098
>>>>>
>>>>>         Authors: Maciej Stachowiak <m...@apple.com>, Joe Mason 
>>>>> <joe.ma...@torchmobile.com>
>>>>
>>>>>>>>>       Reviewed by Mark Rowe.
>>>>>>>>>>       * Scripts/prepare-ChangeLog:
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>So, the main author (or whichever one is submitting the patch if that's 
>>>>>>>>unclear) in the header, then a separate "Authors" line above the 
>>>>>>>>Reviewer line with everyone who deserves credit.
>>>>
>>>
>>>I've never seen this format used in WebKit patches.
>>>
>>>>>>- Mark
>>>
>>>
>>>
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