Re: [Quilt-dev] pushd $SUBDIR for apatch and rpatch?

[Joe Green]

Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> On Monday 09 August 2004 20:43, Joe Green wrote:
> > Speaking of $SUBDIR, the attached patch shows some recent changes in CVS
> > that look a bit odd.  $SUBDIR is pushd while executing apatch and rpatch
> > from push and pop respectively.  What is this supposed to do?
>
> It restores the working directory so that apatch and rpatch will know they 
> were invoked from within a sub-directory. (That info would get lost, leading 
> to incorrect paths in messages.)

Ah, I see; I was missing the fact that running patchfns in apatch and 
rpatch will set the SUBDIR correctly again.

Thanks, that clears it up for me.

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