diff -urN quilt-0.46/quilt.quiltrc quilt-0.46.wrlinkmod/quilt.quiltrc
--- quilt-0.46/quilt.quiltrc	2006-06-12 11:54:47.000000000 -0500
+++ quilt-0.46.wrlinkmod/quilt.quiltrc	2008-01-29 14:04:41.000000000 -0600
@@ -25,3 +25,8 @@
 # Use a specific editor for quilt (defaults to the value of $EDITOR before
 # sourcing this configuration file, or vi if $EDITOR wasn't set).
 #EDITOR=nedit
+
+#If your patch files are actually symlinks, this option set to yes will allow
+#the symlink to be preserved (resulting in the file the link is pointing to
+#to be refreshed).
+#QUILT_NO_RM_SYMLINKS=yes
diff -urN quilt-0.46/quilt/scripts/patchfns.in quilt-0.46.wrlinkmod/quilt/scripts/patchfns.in
--- quilt-0.46/quilt/scripts/patchfns.in	2006-09-19 09:44:47.000000000 -0500
+++ quilt-0.46.wrlinkmod/quilt/scripts/patchfns.in	2008-01-28 14:56:14.000000000 -0600
@@ -749,7 +749,13 @@
 {
 	local filename="$1"
 
-	[ -e "$filename" ] && rm -f "$filename"
+	if [ -e "$filename" ]
+	then
+		if [ "$QUILT_NO_RM_SYMLINKS" != "yes" ]
+		then
+			rm -f "$filename"
+		fi
+	fi
 
 	case "$filename" in
 	*.gz)