From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030293AbWBMXhF (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:37:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030294AbWBMXhF (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:37:05 -0500 Received: from omta02ps.mx.bigpond.com ([144.140.83.154]:31108 "EHLO omta02ps.mx.bigpond.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030293AbWBMXhD (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:37:03 -0500 Message-ID: <43F1181D.1080202@bigpond.net.au> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:37:01 +1100 From: Peter Williams User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: Jean Delvare Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] quilt 0.43 References: <7Ks06MZm.1139822040.2403500.khali@localhost> In-Reply-To: <7Ks06MZm.1139822040.2403500.khali@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at omta02ps.mx.bigpond.com from [147.10.133.38] using ID pwil3058@bigpond.net.au at Mon, 13 Feb 2006 23:37:01 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi all, > > Quilt 0.43 has been released ten days ago (sorry for being slow). A > number of improvements may be of interest to kernel developers so I am > announcing it here on LKML. > > Quilt 0.43 can be downloaded from here: > http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/quilt/quilt-0.43.tar.gz > > Bug fixes: > Deleting the top patch works again, > patch delimiter ("---") is no more eaten on refresh. > > Compatibility: > Huge efforts have been put into improving compatibility with many > platforms. The git specific patch format extensions are better > supported too. > > New features: > The mail command has been completely reworked, > delete -r physically removes the deleted patch, > delete --backup makes a backup copy of the deleted patch, > annotate -P annotates a previous version of the file, > import can preserve or merge comments when updating a patch, > push detects reversed patches, > diffstat options can be specified, > patch delimiter ("---") is automatically inserted before diffstat. > Changes to the interface in this version of quilt broke gquilt (a GUI wrapper for quilt) and if you use gquilt and upgrade to this version of quilt you will also need to upgrade to version 0.17 of gquilt. It is available in source form at: and rpm form at: Enjoy, Peter -- Peter Williams pwil3058@bigpond.net.au "Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious." -- Ambrose Bierce