RFC: MQ patch reordering

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On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Frank Kingswood
<frank at kingswood-consulting.co.uk> wrote:
> I see, that would require patches themselves to be transformed which is more
> tricky.

Actually, I want it to fail (abort) if the patches don't apply
properly. I don't want it to rewrite the patches, just rewrite the
repository and the series file.

> But the semantics would be the same as a "slow stupid" version, so
> that might be a step on the way.
> I haven't looked into the MQ source, does it do things like this already?

I looked and got distracted. Hopefully we can talk about this next weekend :).

from memory (i'm trying to do other stuff atm), it doesn't really work
the way i wanted it to, because it really likes to operate with the
working directory. For what I want, it almost makes more sense to
think about things in terms of Strip and some fake Bundle (where you
basically try to apply the next patch in the proposed series into the
Bundle).