Index: quilt.quiltrc
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RCS file: /sources/quilt/quilt/quilt.quiltrc,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -3 -r1.9 quilt.quiltrc
--- quilt.quiltrc	12 Jun 2006 15:31:25 -0000	1.9
+++ quilt.quiltrc	31 Jan 2008 19:45:25 -0000
@@ -25,3 +25,8 @@
 # Use a specific editor for quilt (defaults to the value of $EDITOR before
 # sourcing this configuration file, or vi if $EDITOR wasn't set).
 #EDITOR=nedit
+
+#If your patch files are actually symlinks, this option set to yes will allow
+#the symlink to be preserved (resulting in the file the link is pointing to
+#to be refreshed).
+#QUILT_NO_RM_SYMLINKS=yes
Index: quilt/scripts/patchfns.in
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RCS file: /sources/quilt/quilt/quilt/scripts/patchfns.in,v
retrieving revision 1.25
diff -u -3 -r1.25 patchfns.in
--- quilt/scripts/patchfns.in	5 Jun 2007 15:40:33 -0000	1.25
+++ quilt/scripts/patchfns.in	31 Jan 2008 19:45:25 -0000
@@ -783,7 +783,13 @@
 {
 	local filename="$1"
 
-	[ -e "$filename" ] && rm -f "$filename"
+	if [ -e "$filename" ]
+	then
+		if [ "$QUILT_NO_RM_SYMLINKS" != "yes" ]
+		then
+			rm -f "$filename"
+		fi
+	fi
 
 	case "$filename" in
 	*.gz)