Hi!
While including vdr into gentoo I found a lot of patches colliding at the same places in vdr. The places where this occurs mostly are: * config.h, members of cSetup * config.c, things in global space like new methods of cSetup * config.c, init of member variables of cSetup * config.c, store of member variables of cSetup * config.c, parse/read of member-variables of cSetup * i18n.c, definition of new i18ns
The solution I propse is:
In each of these places add a context for diff (perhaps like this):
/* * Place for patches to insert functions/members to cSetup - Begin */ /* * Place for patches to insert functions/members to cSetup - End */
Attached is a patch to add these contexts at the places mentioned above.
Now, if a patch wants to add some new members to cSetup these should be inserted between these two (three lines long) comments. The patch must also reproduce the context from above.
Example: If patch a wants to add a variable a_active to cSetup this should result in that patch:
/* * Place for patches to insert functions/members to cSetup - Begin */ + // added by patch a + int a_active; + /* + * Place for patches to insert functions/members to cSetup - End + */ + /* + * Place for patches to insert functions/members to cSetup - Begin + */ /* * Place for patches to insert functions/members to cSetup - End */
This will reproduce the context and the next patch can also be applied without problems.
That has the following advantages: 1. The patch will be independent of other patches adding variables at the same place, as long as they also uses that technique. 2. The patch will nevertheless be garantueed to hit the right place, as the occurence of this context is unique.
Greetings Matthias