[darcs-users] new patch status?

Trent W. Buck twb at cybersource.com.au
Tue Nov 17 01:57:42 UTC 2009


Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh at earth.li> writes:

> Generally when reviewing patches, I read them directly, perhaps have a
> look at the source they apply to, and then decide that they're fine so
> long as the tests pass. Actually keeping track of them between that
> point and running the tests and pushing is a bit of a pain, and
> there's a cognitive shift that feels quite disruptive.

Let me turn this around: how hard would it be to automate this, so that
patches that don't apply cleanly are automatically set to needs-amend?

Is it as simple as "apply --dry-run $attachment --repodir ..." within
the procmail script?



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