Patching with Quilt

December 27, 2008 · Posted in Linux · 8 Comments 

Quilt is a great program to create patches. This post is a quick ‘n’ dirty tutorial on how to create a quick patch

Assuming you have Quilt installed ,

quilt new my.patch



will create a new empty patch named my.patch


Lets say that this patch is going to affect the main.cpp file. So ,


quilt edit main.cpp




Will open the main.cpp files using your predifined editor ( $EDITOR ), allowing you to make any changes you like.  When you are done , exit the editor. Now, my.patch is a ready-to-apply patch for the main.cpp file.


If you want to apply it , you should refresh the patch by doing


quilt refresh 


and


quilt push


to apply it. Now you have your new main.cpp file ready to use :)


The patch is stored under patches/ folder


If you want to revert the patch you can use


quilt pop




This quide was ment to give you the main idea about the quilt program


A great guide about quilt can be found here.


Happy patching



		
		

			
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