[oe] [RFC Wild Ideas Department] create soft-links from <pkg>/<src>/patches/some_local.patch to <oe.git>/packages/<pkg>/files/some_local.patch

[Holger Freyther]

On Wednesday 03 December 2008 17:46:04 Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> during maintenance of our local set of OE patches, it would be handy
> not having to copy patches back into the repository.
>
> i.e. the patch fetcher could instead of copy the patch to the work
> directory, soft-link from the repo.
>
> Does this make sense?

Yes it does, but I'm also toying with the idea of turning everything into a 
git checkout (using git am for the patches...)...

z.