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On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 20:08 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> 2. Patches have to apply to the top directory of the source tree with |
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> 'patch -p1'. If patches are applied to sub-directories, necessary '-p' |
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> argument shall be passed to 'epatch' explicitly. Developers are |
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> encouraged to create patches which are compatible with 'git am'. |
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Please don't make -p1 into a hard requirement :/ |
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There are upstreams who have different directory layouts in their scm |
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tree and in their source tarballs. If I clone an upstream git repository |
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to obtain a patch or to write a new patch that I will submit upstream, I |
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want to be able to apply that patch in an ebuild without having to |
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manually sed it to change the -p level. |
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Specific examples of this among packages that I maintain: app-cdr/cdemu, |
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app-cdr/cdemu-daemon, sys-fs/vhba. These all use the same git tree, and |
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source tarballs for individual packages are created from different |
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subdirectories of that git tree. |
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