From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:08:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [StGit PATCH] add option to import series directly from a tar archive
Message-ID: <20080912130834.GB31240@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20080912130703.GA31240@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>

On 2008-09-12 15:07:03 +0200, Karl Hasselström wrote:

> On 2008-09-12 14:21:13 +0200, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
>
> >   - to be able to find where the patch should be applied; I
> >     sometimes receive patches for GCC directory "gcc/ada/", diffed
> >     from there, and if StGit could see that the patch only makes
> >     sense there and not at the top-level it would be great as well
>
> I don't believe git-apply can do this (please correct me if I'm
> wrong)

It does have a --directory flag, but that requires the user to specify
the path manually.

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