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          <h2 class="center" id="title">SUCKLESS UPGRADE WORKFLOW</h2>
          <h6 class="center">30 NOVEMBER 2025</h5>
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          <div class="twocol justify"><p>Workflow for managing suckless patches across upgrades:</p>

<p>Initial setup:</p>
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  <li>Clone from suckless</li>
  <li>Reset to stable tag</li>
  <li>Set push URL to my repo (git.asciimx.com)</li>
  <li>Pull from upstream, push to mine</li>
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<p>Config changes only:</p>
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  <li>Edit config.h (or let make generate it)</li>
  <li>make clean install</li>
  <li>Commit, push</li>
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<p>dwm/slstatus installs:</p>
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  <li>Can’t replace running binaries</li>
  <li>Kill dwm (Mod+Shift+q)</li>
  <li>Switch to tty (Ctrl+Alt+F1 on OpenBSD)</li>
  <li>make install</li>
  <li>Back to X (Ctrl+Alt+F5)</li>
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<p>Upgrades:</p>
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  <li>git pull –rebase</li>
  <li>git rebase -i  to drop commits between my patch and new stable</li>
  <li>Keep only: my patches + new stable tag + old history</li>
  <li>Install, commit, push</li>
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<p>Example:</p>

<p>Before: [my patch] -&gt; [6.5] <br />
After pull: [my patch] -&gt; [random commits] -&gt; [6.6] -&gt; [old stuff] -&gt; [6.5] <br />
After rebase: [my patch] -&gt; [6.6] -&gt; [old stuff] -&gt; [6.5]</p>

<p>Note: This keeps patch history clean while staying current.</p>

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          <p class="post-author right">by W. D. Sadeep Madurange</p>
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