[darcs-users] Merging several patches into one

Korusef korusef at gmail.com
Tue Jun 20 18:45:33 UTC 2006


On 6/20/06, Richard A. Smith <rsmith at bitworks-inc.com> wrote:
> Jason Dagit wrote:
>
> > subject of logistics, let me lend some advice (perhaps you're already
> > doing this), document requested features and bugs somewhere and give
> > them names like feature-112 or bug-65 and then put those name into the
> > patch names.  I've found this form of cross linking to be very
> > worthwhile.
>
> Thanks.  Thats a good $.02.  We use mantis but it never crossed my mind
> to include the tracking number in the patch name.

I also include names of the files affected by the patch, and I tend to
split patches to affect just one file at time.
It's workaround for the missing --matches='file ....' feature.

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