Andrew Morton originally developed a set of scripts for maintaining kernel patches outside of any SCM tool - quilt whose basic idea is to maintain patches instead of maintaining source files. Patches can be added, removed or reordered, and they can be refreshed as you fix bugs or update to a new base revision. quilt is very powerful, but it is not integrated with the underlying SCM tools. The patch queue extension Mq integrates quilt functionality into Mercurial. Changes are maintained as patches which are committed into Mercurial. Commits can be removed or reordered, and the underlying patch can be refreshed based on changes made in the working directory. The patch directory can also be placed under revision control, so you can have a separate history of changes made to your patches.
The JDBC Importer provides a consistent mechanism of importing data from files into a JDBC compliant database. Currently, each database vendor has their own utility or command that must be learned. Additionally, there are some limitations and caveats abou
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