Re: [Quilt-dev] [RFC] Conditional diff/refresh opts depending on the source dir name

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:36:04AM +0100, Andreas Krebbel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> working on different projects I've to deal with different patch formats  
> and was looking for a way to handle that automatically for me.
>
> I'm using quilt for my patch management very much but usually forget  
> about adjusting the diff options in .quiltrc when switching from one  
> project to another. That's why I did a small change to my local quilt  
> installation which allows me to set diff opts depending on the name of  
> the source directory of the project. With that change it is possible to  
> set quilt diff args like that:
>
> QUILT_DIFF_ARGS="--no-timestamps --color=auto | gcc*:-C3 | *libc*:-U3"
>
> which makes quilt to use these options when in a directory starting with  
> gcc:
> --no-timestamps --color=auto -C3
>
> or these if you are in a directory whose name contains libc:
> --no-timestamps --color=auto -U3
>
>
> I think this might be useful to others as well. What do you think?

Would it be easier to have it source a .quiltrc from CWD instead?  Then you
could just have a different .quiltrc for each project with the different
options.

josh