Re: Supporting Gtk+ Maintenance

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 11:27 -0400, मयंक जैन (makuchaku) wrote:
> On 3/16/07, Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com> wrote:
> > Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to do this:
> >
> > - Get the latest GTK+ from svn trunk.
> >
> > - Go through each of the unreviewed patches and classify them
> > informally:
> >
> >         - obsolete patch which does not apply "as-is" to the sources
> >           (you can use "patch --dry-run" to test this easily without
> >           screwing up your source tree)
> >         - big patch which needs detailed testing/review
> >         - small patch which could be tested/reviewed in a few minutes
> >
> 
> 29 patches were categorized. More to go...
> 
> Is there a way to check programatically (scripts/patch-command/etc)
> that if a patch is applicable to be applied with p0 or p1?

patch --dry-run

$ cat gnome-patch
#!/bin/bash

if test $# '!=' 1; then
        echo usage: $0 attachmentid
        exit 2
fi

ID=$1
FILE="attachment.cgi?id=$ID"
OUT="attachment-$ID.patch"
wget "http://bugzilla.gnome.org/$FILE"; -O "$OUT" &&
patch --dry-run -p0 < "$OUT" &&
patch -p0 < "$OUT" &&
echo "Patch $OUT applied cleanly."


> If so, then this process of categorizing patches can be automated i suppose.
> 
> ...any comments, suggestions :)
> 
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