From: Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:36:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach 'git apply' to look at $GIT_DIR/config
Message-ID: <45DA4298.7010002@fs.ei.tum.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vwt2d4s6c.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> If the patch were what you made by running "GNU diff" inside a
> corresponding subdirectory of another repository (perhaps you
> wanted to feed uncommitted changes from there to this
> repository), then you can always use "GNU patch" to apply.  If
> you made such a one-shot patch using git-diff, it will tell you
> the correct directory to apply to, so...

The difference there is that GNU/Larry Wall diff does not prepend a/ and b/ to the paths.  Maybe use this as an indicator for "this patch is relative to project root" vs. "this patch doesn't know where it wants to be applied".

A parameter --subdir, or even plain -pN could mean "apply this patch here, now."

cheers
  simon

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