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Re: per-topic patches



> So, I've been saying for ages now that we should move to per-topic
> patches. The sticking point, AIUI, is that with per-file patches you
> can regenerate the patchset by re-diffing all the files against their
> corresponding *.orig files. That breaks as soon as more than one patch
> touches the same file -- you lose too much information when the
> patches are applied.
I was under the impression that the point was you don't need to bother with 
the order in which patches are applied (when automatically applying them).


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