From: Samuel Tardieu Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:59:45 GMT Subject: Re: [StGit PATCH] add option to import series directly from a tar archive Message-ID: <2008-09-12-15-59-45+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net> In-Reply-To: <48CA674B.9080900@gmail.com> >>>>> "Clark" == Clark Williams writes: Clark> Zowie, I thought I only had to worry about folks sending Clark> patches with incomplete information. So you get patches to the Clark> ada compiler that are rooted in gcc/ada (e.g. patch in tarball Clark> says "./ChangeLog", instead of gcc/ada/ChangeLog) rather than Clark> at a top level? Only way I could see to deal with that would be Clark> to try and pass in the appropriate prefix from the command Clark> line. Yes, passing the prefix and strip levels would be fine. Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@rfc1149.net -- http://www.rfc1149.net/