Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] writes:
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It's my understanding that most changes discussed on lkml are provided
as a series of patches. Bazaar bundles are intended as a direct
replacement for patches in that use case.
As _series_ of patches. You have git-format-patch + git-send-email
to format and send them, git-am to apply them (as patches, not as branch).
I was under an impression that user sees only mega-patch of all the
revisions in bundle together, and rest is for machine consumption only.
Nothing prevents you from using series of bundles.
A bundle for a single revision looks like a patch with a few comments
on top and bottom. _If_ you have several revisions in your patch, you
get the diff as human readable, and the intermediate revisions as
MIME-encoded.
For big changes, people do send several bundles.
So, a bundle is a direct replacement for a patch, not for series of
patches.
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Matthieu
Matthieu Moy wrote:
Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
quoted
It's my understanding that most changes discussed on lkml are provided
as a series of patches. Bazaar bundles are intended as a direct
replacement for patches in that use case.
As _series_ of patches. You have git-format-patch + git-send-email
to format and send them, git-am to apply them (as patches, not as branch).
I was under an impression that user sees only mega-patch of all the
revisions in bundle together, and rest is for machine consumption only.
Nothing prevents you from using series of bundles.
A bundle for a single revision looks like a patch with a few comments
on top and bottom. _If_ you have several revisions in your patch, you
get the diff as human readable, and the intermediate revisions as
MIME-encoded.
For big changes, people do send several bundles.
So, a bundle is a direct replacement for a patch, not for series of
patches.
Ah, that explains this. So why people use bundles instead of patches
(with some metainfo like commit message)? And do bzr have command to
apply in correct ordering series of bundles send either chain replied
to (each patch in the series is reply to previous patch) or being
replies to patchseries introductory message?
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Jakub Narebski
Poland