Jean Delvare wrote:
Hi all,
Quilt 0.43 is now available for download from Savannah:
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/quilt/
Enjoy!
I've experienced a serious problem with this version of quilt that is
rather hard to explain but definitely arrived with this version as
reverting to 0.42 makes the problem go away.
Now to try to explain the problem :-(
The problem arises when pushing a patch that has errors in it (due to
changes in the previous patches in the series) and needs the -f flag to
force the push. What's happening is that the reverse of the errors is
being applied to the "pre patch" file in the .pc directory. Then when
you pop this patch it returns the file to a state with the reverse of
the errors applied to it.
I'm having trouble understanding how quilt could be dumb enough to do
this as surely the "pre patch" file in the .pc directory should be just
a copy of the file before the patch is applied.
This bug can completely hose a set of patches if the user doesn't notice
it very early and do something about it. The work around is to revert
to version 0.42 of quilt.
Peter
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