Re: [PATCH] format-patch: remove existing output-directory

> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 06:45:19PM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>> John Keeping wrote:
>> > 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.
>> 
>> format.cleanOutputDirectory = true|false?
>
> Maybe, but I was thinking of something more like:
>
>     Output directory is not empty, use "--allow-non-empty-dir" if you
>     really want to proceed.
>
> Using that configuration variable lets someone shoot themselves in the
> foot quite badly if they forget that they have set it and set the output
> directory to somewhere containing important data.