Re: [Quilt-dev] quilt new overrides SUBDIR

[Joe Green]

Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Indeed. The idea behind this was as follows: If a patches sub-directory exists 
> further up the tree but not in the root of the working tree, the new command 
> will break out of the working tree and create patches further up the tree. I 
> repeatedly stumbled over this problem in the beginning. (The import command 
> has the same problem, but it currently has no workaround.)

Ah, now I get it.  I probably never see this because I use QUILT_PATCHES 
to change the default; "patches" seemed likely to be easily confused 
with other files.  I always use "quilt setup" also, so there is always a 
QUILT_PATCHES directory in the root.

Thanks
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Joe Green <address@hidden>
MontaVista Software, Inc.