gquilt 0.17 review

quilt project is a tool for managing a series of patches by keeping track of the changes each patch makes. Patches can be applied, u

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quilt project is a tool for managing a series of patches by keeping track of the changes each patch makes.

Patches can be applied, un-applied, refreshed, etc. gquilt is a PyGTK GUI wrapper for quilt.

Here are some key features of "gquilt":
Currently, point and click interfaces are only provided for a small (frequently used) sub set of quilt's commands:

an Open menu item in the Playground that allows the root directory for the quilt playground to be selected,
tool bar buttons that execute common operations on the top applied patch, and
pop up menus (triggered by the right mouse button) over the playground files tree, patch files tree and patch series list that execute common operations such as adding files to the top patch, etc.

To compensate for the incomplete coverage of quilt's command set a text entry widget is provided in the tool bar where arbitrary quilt commands may be executed. All quilt commands initiated by the user (either by point and click or the provided entry widget) are echoed (with a time stamp) to the console widget at the bottom of the main window as is the resulting output from the quilt command. To enable easy distinction between stdout and stderr output the former is printed in black and the latter in red.

What's New in This Release:
Changes which were made to quilt's interface in version 0.43 broke gquilt.
This patch fixes that breakage.
It should still work with older versions of quilt.