Re: [PATCH] Add format-patch option --no-name-prefix.

From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Dec 18, 2007, 15:54 UTC
Message-ID: <4767ED52.9010004@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <1197992574-3464-1-git-send-email-pascal@obry.net>

Pascal Obry schrieb:

> This option can be used to generate a patch file
> where file names are relative to the Git root
> directory. Such a patch can then be applied with
> the standard patch tool using option -p0.

While I've always wondered what the a/ and b/ prefixes were good for (and I still do), I also wonder what's so different between typing

     patch -p0
and
     patch -p1

that we need another diff option for it. Ok, on my keyboard 0 is typed with the right hand, and 1 with the left hand, but... ??

-- Hannes