Re: [Quilt-dev] Re: [PATCH] Remember location of patches and series file

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, David Paleino wrote:
> You have QUILT_PATCHES=./foo/ in .pc/quiltrc, and you share foo/.
> 
> Once you put foo/ under ./ in your source project, how does quilt know that 
> *that* is the real QUILT_PATCHES to look for? You can't, since that 
> information was in something you didn't share.

My goal has never been to share the settings in a VCS, my goal is just
to remember the values of QUILT_PATCHES and QUILT_SERIES across multiple
invocations of quilt.

So that once you do "QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches quilt push -a" you don't
need to set QUILT_PATCHES when you later use "quilt pop" and so on.

Incidentally, those values could be preset if we know where it's stored.
(And that's what I want to do with dpkg-source and the quilt-based format.
So that people don't have to set QUILT_PATCHES explicitly and can just use
quilt normally while still using the debian/patches/ directory.)

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog