Ha yes that does sound mad. If only there was a version control system specifically designed to track changes to code...
Quilt predates Git. Back then source was distributed as a tarball, and Debian simply maintained a directory full of patches to apply to the tarball.
it's quite difficult to maintain a quilt like workflow with plain git
I've tried it
Quilt predates Git. Back then source was distributed as a tarball, and Debian simply maintained a directory full of patches to apply to the tarball.