NAME

       gbp-pq - Manage quilt patches on patch queue branches in git

SYNOPSIS

       gbp  pq  [  --verbose  ]  [  --color=[auto|on|off] ] [ --[no-]patch-numbers ] [ --topic=topic ] [ --time-
       machine=num ] drop | export | import | rebase | switch

DESCRIPTION

       gbp pq helps one to manage quilt patches in Debian  packages  that  are  maintained  with  gbp.  This  is
       especially  useful  with  packages  using the 3.0 (quilt) source format. With gbp pq you can maintain the
       quilt patches that should be applied to a package on a separate branch called patch-queue branch.  So  if
       your Debian package lives on master the associated patch-queue branch will be called patch-queue/master.

       See  <URL:https://honk.sigxcpu.org/piki/development/debian_packages_in_git/> for example workflows.

ACTIONS

       import Create   a  patch  queue  branch  from  quilt  patches  in  debian/patches/  that  are  listed  in
              debian/patches/series.

       export Export the patches on the patch-queue branch associated to the current branch into a  quilt  patch
              series in debian/patches/ and update the series file.

       rebase Switch  to  the  patch-queue  branch  associated  to  the current branch and rebase it against the
              current branch.

       drop   Drop (delete) the patch queue associated to the current branch. So if you're on  branch  foo  this
              would drop branch patch-queue/foo.

       apply  Add  a  single patch to the patch-queue similar to using git-am. Use --topic if you want the patch
              to appear in a separate subdir when exporting the patch queue using export. This can  be  used  to
              separate upstream pathes from debian specific patches.

       switch Switch to the patch-queue branch if on the base branch and switch to base branch if on patch-queue
              branch.

OPTIONS

       --verbose

       -v     verbose execution

       --color=[auto|on|off]
              Whether to use colored output.

       --[no-]patch-numbers
              Whether the patch files should start with a number or not.

       --topic=topic
              Topic to use when importing a single patch

       --time-machine=NUM
              When importing a patch queue fails, go back commit by commit on the current branch to check if the
              patch-queue  applies  there.  Do  this  at  most  NUM times. This can be useful if the patch-queue
              doesn't apply to the current branch HEAD anymore, e.g.  after importing a new upstream version.

TAGS

       When exporting patches from a patch-queue branch gbp pq will look at the patch header for special tags it
       recognizes. All tags need to start at the first column and require at  least  one  whitespace  after  the
       colon.

       Gbp[-Pq]: Ignore
              Ignores the commit, no patch is generated out of it.

       Gbp[-Pq]: Topic topic
              Moves the patch into a subdir called topic when running

              gbp pq export
              This allows for some structure below debian/patches.

       Gbp-Pq-Topic: topic
              Deprecated: use Gbp[-Pq]: Topic topic instead.

SEE ALSO

       gbp-buildpackage(1), dpkg-source(1), quilt(1), gbp.conf(5)

AUTHOR

       Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org>

                                                15 February 2014                                       GBP-PQ(1)