Hi Markus, [Markus Oberhumer] > > > This patch introduces a new QUILT_DIFF_A_B config variable to create > > > patches prefixed with a/ and b/ directories like git and mercurial does.
[Jean Delvare] > > I'm curious, why does it matter to you? Functionally, it's really the > > same patch in the end. [Markus Oberhumer] > there are a number of scenarious where this is very useful, e.g. if you put > your patches/ dir under a version control system because the contents of > the patches do no longer depend on the name of the top directory. OK, this makes sense. > Actually I think that the a-b prefix should be the default for any > application that deals with patches, but I'm aware that it's probably too > late to change quilt's default. I am _very_ happy with the current default, I think it's valueable to know what a patch is against, and the base directory name usually gives me part or all of this information. -- Jean Delvare _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
