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changeset 28:f5ce861d6fcc

Fix description of quilt.
author Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com>
date Thu Jul 13 14:58:31 2006 -0700 (2006-07-13)
parents 535e87792eb1
children cc1e6f1d7161
files en/mq.tex
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     1.1 --- a/en/mq.tex	Wed Jul 12 00:14:52 2006 -0700
     1.2 +++ b/en/mq.tex	Thu Jul 13 14:58:31 2006 -0700
     1.3 @@ -78,10 +78,10 @@
     1.4  large following among open source software developers.
     1.5  
     1.6  Quilt manages a \emph{stack of patches} on top of a directory tree.
     1.7 -To begin, you tell quilt to manage a directory tree; it stores away
     1.8 -the names and contents of all files in the tree.  To fix a bug, you
     1.9 -create a new patch (using a single command), edit the files you need
    1.10 -to fix, then ``refresh'' the patch.  
    1.11 +To begin, you tell quilt to manage a directory tree, and tell it which
    1.12 +files you want to manage; it stores away the names and contents of
    1.13 +those files.  To fix a bug, you create a new patch (using a single
    1.14 +command), edit the files you need to fix, then ``refresh'' the patch.
    1.15  
    1.16  The refresh step causes quilt to scan the directory tree; it updates
    1.17  the patch with all of the changes you have made.  You can create