[csw-maintainers] Patch management with Quilt

[Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński]

2012/1/9 Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org>:
> There are two cases to content with here:
>
> 1. Updating a patch that still applies.
> 2. Updating a patch that no longer applies.
>
> For patches that apply still, I think the stack overflow thread
> provides sound advice in that git rebase -i is the way to go.  All
> patches that get applied are done on a 'csw' branch, so an interactive
> rebase against master (or the upstream tag) should be pretty sane.  A
> new series of patches for GAR can then be generated with:
>
> git format-patch upstream

Did anyone had a chance to go over an example package and write out
every command that you have to type to do it?

Maciej