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authorAndreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>2004-03-14 00:46:03 +0000
committerAndreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>2004-03-14 00:46:03 +0000
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- Another minor documentation updatev0.32
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@@ -539,14 +539,22 @@ When the number of patches in a project grows large, it becomes
increasingly difficult to find the right place for adding a new patch in
the patch series. At a certain point, patches will get inserted at the
end of the patch series, because finding the right place has become too
-complicated. In the long run this leads to more and more mess.
-
-To help keep the big picture, the \quilt{graph} command generates
-\textit{dot} graphs showing the dependencies between patches. The ouput
-of this command can be visualized using the tools from AT\&T Research's
-Graph Visualization Project (GraphViz, \url{http://www.graphviz.org/}).
-The \quilt{graph} command can generate various different kinds of
-graphs.
+complicated. In the long run, a mess accumulates.
+
+To help avoid this by keeping the big picture, the \quilt{graph} command
+generates \textit{dot} graphs showing the dependencies between
+patches.\footnote{
+ Currently, \quilt{graph} only considers which files the
+ patches modify. Multiple patches may modify different areas
+ in the same file(s) without conflicting, in which case
+ \quilt{graph} would report false dependencies. It is
+ difficult to determine reliably whether or not two patches
+ have conflicts without actually applying the patches in
+ different orders.
+} The ouput of this command can be visualized using the tools from AT\&T
+Research's Graph Visualization Project (GraphViz,
+\url{http://www.graphviz.org/}). The \quilt{graph} command supports
+different kinds of graphs.
\subsection{Advanced Diffing}