On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 06:13:33PM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > The following command > > $ git format-patch -o outgoing master > > does not ensure that the output-directory outgoing doesn't already > exist. As a result, it's possible for patches from two different series > to get mixed up if the user is not careful. Fix the problem by > unconditionally removing the output-directory before writing to it.
I don't think this is the correct behaviour. I can think of cases where I would want to output multiple things into the same directory. It may be better to issue a warning when this happens, or die and provide a flag to let the user bypass that. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
