package quilt tag 332676 fixed 0.46-1 thanks hello, this was fixed in upstream 0.46. Part of quilt diff -h:
-p ab Create a -p1 style patch, but use a/file and b/file as the
original and new filenames instead of the default
dir.orig/file and dir/file names.
Bye, Mt.
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 12:43:47PM -0700, Rob Browning wrote:
>
> Package: quilt
> Version: 0.42-1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> As it stands when quilt generates a patch, it uses the current
> directory in the --- and +++ paths.
>
> This can cause a regenerated patch to have a large number of lines
> that differ from the previous version of the patch, even if little or
> nothing has actually changed.
>
> So I was wondering if it might be possible for quilt to use bogus, but
> consistent path names in these paths, i.e. perhaps just use old and
> new:
>
> --- old/...
> +++ new/...
>
> This might be provided as an option to the refresh command, or perhaps
> even become the default behavior.
>
> An equally good, or perhaps even better alternative might be for quilt
> to just preserve the existing path prefixes when regenerating a patch
> (either by default or by option).
>
> Thanks
> --
> Rob Browning
> rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu
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>
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