Hi Junio,

On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 11:25:18AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Denton Liu [off-list ref] writes:

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Rewrite the output directory logic for format-patch so that it will be
relative to the worktree of the directory. An escape hatch is provided
for if the previous behaviour is desired by prepending "./" to the
variable.

Anything that forces existing users to change their existing
settings is not an escape hatch.  It merely is a regression with a
possible workaround.

So I dunno.  I probably would have accepted a patch that *adds*
outputDirectory configuration that behaves the way you are proposing
in this patch if we did not have the variable yet in the system
(i.e. three or four years ago), but I am not sure if it is a good
idea to change it after these years.

Perhaps instead of switching the default behaviour so that it's always
relative to the top of the worktree, we can add some sort of prefix to
indicate that we want this behaviour. Maybe `worktree:path/from/top` or
`^path/from/top` or something like this?

Thanks,

Denton