RFC: MQ patch reordering

Augie Fackler lists at durin42.com
Mon Feb 1 01:21:16 UTC 2010


On Jan 31, 2010, at 3:46 PM, Greg Ward wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Augie Fackler <lists at durin42.com> wrote:
>> I'd like to integrate a feature along these lines into histedit, but
>> getting the mq state information to not be corrupt turns out to be
>> somewhat tricky.
> 
> Just because histedit's UI for reordering history is a bit nicer and
> smarter than MQ's?  I see the two is largely independent: I use
> histedit when I can't be bothered to use MQ; if I'm using MQ, histedit
> is irrelevant.  histedit is for quick jobs, and MQ is for bigger jobs.

I've still not seen any patch-mangling operations that I don't prefer to do in histedit, and wish it'd integrate with mq for my own needs. Plus, histedit would let you fold and reorder in a single step.

> 
> Mads' idea:
>> I think that a -e option to qseries to edit the series file would be sufficient and nice. (-e is used for > other commands to specify a ssh command, but I don't think there would be a problem with
>> that.)
> 
> Good idea.  That leaves qreorder open for a smarter, more complex,
> non-interactive command.  If such a thing is really desirable.  ;-)
> 
> Greg



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