The whole patch quilting thing is awful. Just keep the patches as commits. It won't "trick" me or anyone else, especially if you keep them in branches that denote "debian".

Please, please, stop the nonsense with the patch quilting -- it's really cumbersome, it adds unnecessary cognitive load, it raises the bar to contributions, it makes maintenance harder, and it adds _zero value_. Patch quilting is a lose-lose proposition.

Moving from a patch stack maintained by quilt to git is what this article is about.

What is patch quilting, for the blissfully unaware?