From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 05:40:18 GMT
Subject: Re: Merge git-gui into 1.5.0 ?
Message-ID: <20070212054018.GC28231@mellanox.co.il>
In-Reply-To: <20070211230204.GE31488@spearce.org>

> Quoting Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>:
> Subject: Re: Merge git-gui into 1.5.0 ?
> 
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > > It may make patching slightly more interesting though, as some
> > > users new to git-gui development may generate a patch in git.git
> > > (using a/git-gui/git-gui.sh as the path) which then would not apply
> > > as-is to the master git-gui development tree.
> > 
> > In this case, a "-p <n>" option to git-am would make sense, no?
> 
> Are you saying we just suddenly found a vaild use for a flag which
> nobody (except the original submitter) thought was useful?  ;-)
> 
> Yes, clearly a -p<n> on git-am would solve the problem quite nicely.

Actually, -p<n> option to git-am is also useful for piping
patches to git-am directly from mail: sometimes people would generate
a patch by hand and this results in patches incorrect -p level.
	
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