Re: [PATCH 7/7] Use a separate directory for patches under each branch subdir

[Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu>]

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Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On 29/11/05, Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com> wrote:
> 
>>Currently you can't specify a patch name that matches the name of one of
>>the stgit special files under .git/patches/<branch-name>.  Let's use a
>>new subdirectory under .git/patches/<branch-name> to contain just the
>>patch directories to remove this limitation.
> 
> 
> This patch doesn't fix the already created branches. It would be
> useful to upgrade the branch structure automatically if the patches
> directory is not found.

the reason i didn't do that is because i wanted to allow older versions 
of StGIT to continue to work on existing repositories.

what if i added a migration tool to allow a user to switch back and forth?

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