[mythtv] writing patches that build on not yet committed patches.

Robert Tsai mythtv at tsaiberspace.net
Tue May 23 01:52:55 UTC 2006


On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 03:08:50AM +0200, Janne Grunau wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 May 2006 02:39, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> > Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
> > > quilt.
> >
> > Quilt sounds interesting. I'll have to check it out.
> 
> Quilt does a good job for managing patches. It's not optimal for
> writing patches. I forget too often to add the files before editing
> them.
> 
> > Personally I setup my own SVN with a trunk mirrored (manually)
> > from the main Myth trunk. I then branch that trunk to my own dev
> > branch and work on that.
> 
> You might want to take a look at svk. It should make your local
> branching easier,

All these fancy-schmancy setups, meh.

I have multiple copies of the source tree. Works well enough.

--Rob


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