Re: [Quilt-dev] quit add /absolute/path

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Andreas,

On Fri, 16 Jan 2015 11:04:27 +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> something to look at maybe: when doing something like this:
> 
>    $ quilt new test.diff
>    $ quilt add /absolute/path
> 
> quilt ignores the leading slash and adds file absolute/path. That's 
> wrong and confusing.
> 
> Also, when "patches" is a symlink that points to a director above the 
> source tree,
> 
>    $ quilt add $PWD/foo
> 
> will complain that the file is located below patches/, which is 
> technically correct but not an error. A patches symlink to the directory 
> above is common with "quilt setup". (If patches/ is a directory inside 
> the source tree, on the other hand, we do want "quilt add" to fail.)

May I suggest that you create 2 new bug entries at
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=quilt
for these issues? Otherwise I'm afraid we'll forget about them.

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support