gquilt PyGTK GUI wrapper for quilt gets a Mercurial queues (mq) back end

[Peter Williams]

Rafael Villar Burke wrote:
> Peter Williams wrote:
>> I have just released version 0.18 of my gquilt 
>> <http://users.bigpond.net.au/Peter-Williams/> program via a freshmeat 
>> update.  The major new feature of this release is the ability to use 
>> the mq extension to Mercurial as a back end in lieu of quilt (if 
>> desired).
> Great!. I've updated the description for it on pygtk.org so the new 
> Mercurial queues support is reflected.
> 
> As a feature request, would you consider adding the possibility of being 
> able to split a patch in a series of patches, be it using hunks or, 
> better, by selecting some lines that would be removed from the current 
> patch and would be splitted into a new patch in the series. That way you 
> could easily get fine grained patches without worrying for having about 
> it all the time while editing. Maybe rediff in patchutils can help with 
> that.

gquilt is really just a GUI wrapper around quilt and mq and the 
preferred way for such functionality to be added would be for it to be 
added as a feature to mq and/or quilt.  I can then add the ability to 
use that new feature via the GUI.

BTW I think that the actual feature you're requesting would be best done 
by a patch editor i.e. a GUI to edit a patch file and split it up into 
smaller files.  I'm not disinterested in such a tool and will give it 
some thought.

Peter
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