From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5366 invoked by alias); 19 Jun 2008 13:29:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 5355 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Jun 2008 13:29:57 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (HELO fk-out-0910.google.com) (209.85.128.191) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:29:31 +0000 Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 19so766669fkr.8 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:29:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=oH5TmPGLLfozW77VefPI/zZR/SLOBibM2ro6VijpQ3c=; b=CYRZJkoqoXIKd/rJME9/Dh59C3efzBQb5TvOVkD2jidwcqPVxHj992GyxbEiDTm9tw +B2+A7BzgD72JuGPr+c/IvOhg7mDLisATxPTWXZLAZIDq+i8DlBtT73GghfPo+rlZgLI 9TNOZGoX/8LTuwezvnLDie2WdwtmNMrLYK+is= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=e1OxjQMKVxyRylPGQ620RRmt14dxUgQvbCmCyXnfpC9EiHRmqef3g45vs7XFhloPqL o2Zj+PVwSSg7lDTS3xq1DzEe8+qvWbhFNGdoUSwL0mRorCVPOHEc+wU5/m1bWGB6KpwK msVN+0sbU3bQ/VcD03RsLCyz8VuvlAMPh+fos= Received: by 10.78.100.2 with SMTP id x2mr1022815hub.52.1213882167798; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:29:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?127.0.0.1? ( [194.186.53.122]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 37sm1046210hua.58.2008.06.19.06.29.25 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:29:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <485A5BC1.6090105@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:29:00 -0000 From: Serj Kalichev User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080505) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jack Andrews CC: patchutils-list@sourceware.org Subject: Re: reorder patches References: <2cf50a010806190612t87a1638v48cd56fc28596cba@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2cf50a010806190612t87a1638v48cd56fc28596cba@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact patchutils-list-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: patchutils-list-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-q2/txt/msg00006.txt.bz2 Jack Andrews wrote: > hi guys, > > say i have a series of patches A,B,C each of which patches the same > part of a file. is there an automated way to reorder these patches to > C,B,A? or are there some things that just have to be done by hand? > > > ta, jack > I suppose there is no such way. If you patches are very simple and only add a independent strings you have a chance (with possible problems). But for more complex patches there is no unified way.