This repository is a fork of the Suckless dwm (dynamic window manager) project and was created to manage patches. To avoid any conflicts with the original master branch from dwm, this repository does not contain a master branch. Instead, it has a main branch which contains a PKGBUILD file that makes it easy to install a patched version of dwm in Arch Linux. All patches are stored seperately in branches with names that start with "patch-".
To get started, clone this repository and rename the default origin remote.
git clone git@github.com:serg-io/dwm.git
cd dwm
git remote rename origin github
Now add a remote for the original suckless repository.
git remote add suckless https://git.suckless.org/dwm
To install a patched version of dwm in Arch Linux first make sure you have all the latest changes
from the suckless repository.
git fetch suckless
Create a build branch using suckless/master as a starting point and merge the github/main
branch.
git branch --no-track build suckless/master
git checkout build
git merge github/main
If you already have a build branch reset its HEAD and merge github/main.
git checkout build
git reset --hard suckless/master
git merge github/main
Now that you have a build branch with the files from github/main you can use
makepkg to build and install dwm.
makepkg -sci
Before dwm is built, the PKGBUILD script will merge all the remote branches that start with
"patch-".
If you fork this repo, and use your own forked repo instead of this one, you'll be able to create
your own patch branches. To create a patch branch, you must first fetch the most recent changes
from suckeless.
git fetch suckless
Then create a new branch using suckless/master as the starting point and push it to your
repo. Make sure the name of the branch starts with "patch-". The
noborder patch will be used for this example.
git branch --no-track patch-noborder suckless/master
git push -u github patch-noborder
git checkout patch-noborder
Download and apply the required patches. In this case, dwm-noborder-6.2.diff is the only required patch file.
git apply dwm-noborder-6.2.diff
Commit and push your changes.
git add .
git commit -m "dwm-noborder"
git push
You can now follow the installation instructions explained above and your patch branch will be automatically merged during the installation.