On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 10:21:25PM +0100, Wookey wrote:

> > > HOWTO use quilt (for balloon development)
> > > 
> > > As of today the official balloon kernel sources are in
> > > balloonboard.org svn in the form of patches.
> > 
> > Yay.  I converted a couple of older balloon kernel patches to quilt
> > series by hand some time ago because I found it much easier to deal
> > with them in that way.
> > 
> > One thing I'd like you to consider (haven't looked at the patches
> > yet, so I'm not sure whether you've done this or not) is to not just
> > commit random patches into your tree, but to keep detailed logs of
> > why a certain patch was committed into the tree and why.
> 
> Where do you recommend keeping the notes? In a log file/README in svn
> in the patch dir or using the comment-in-series-file mechanism?

I would just keep the notes in the patch files themselves.

quilt supports this fine -- everything you put above the diff is
ignored.