Subject: Re: [PATCH] Tweak git-quiltimport to allow more flexible series format

From: Alexey Dobriyan <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:52:20 +0300

On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 03:43:53PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Alexey Dobriyan <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Make quiltimport also understand comments following patch name.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[email-masked]>
> > ---
> >
> >  git-quiltimport.sh |    2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > --- a/git-quiltimport.sh
> > +++ b/git-quiltimport.sh
> > @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ tmp_info="$tmp_dir/info"
> >  commit=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
> >  
> >  mkdir $tmp_dir || exit 2
> > -for patch_name in $(grep -v '^#' < "$QUILT_PATCHES/series" ); do
> > +for patch_name in $(sed -e 's/#.*//' < "$QUILT_PATCHES/series" ); do
> >  	if ! [ -f "$QUILT_PATCHES/$patch_name" ] ; then
> >  		echo "$patch_name doesn't exist. Skipping."
> >  		continue
> 
> Is this consistent with the way quilt groks the series file?
> 
> IOW, does quilt forbid patchfile whose name contains a hash, and
> anything after a hash on the line is taken as comment?

It looks like hash inside a patch name is legal.
 
> Can a line in a quilt series file name more than one patchfile?

No. Which means we can probably do sed -e 's/^#//' -e 's/[ \t]#.*//'
... let me experiment bit more.

> If so, are they whitespace separated?