[Lguest] [PATCH 0/7] Modify lguest32 to make room for lguest64

[Rusty Russell]

On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 11:11 +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Rusty Russell wrote:
> > So I prefer a queue of patches.  This means you have to comment out
> > patches as they get applied, but since lguest is fairly self-contained
> > that's usually the only form of churn.
> 
> You're the chief, so you get to set the rules. Of course you will always
> have a dissident public :-)

Yeah, I might be persuadable on the subject of a git tree, but I'm not
sure how much better it will make life during this churn, nor how much
difference it will make once things settle down.

> > Note that if your quilt doesn't support guards, you will have gotten all
> > my experimental patches, too.  I've commented them out of the series for
> > now until I can update them.
> 
> Hmmm, can you explain that in English please? :-) I'm on quilt 0.46,
> which is whats in Fedora 7.

mq (mercurial quilt) supports the concepts of "guards" as #+<guardname>
appended to the lines of the series file.  You only get those lines if
you've done "select <guardname>", so it's useful for creating subseries.

Searching now, it seems normal quilt doesn't support this, and tries to
apply everything, seeing the guards as a comment.  That's bad, since
I've got some crap patches in there.

Hope that clarifies,
Rusty.