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> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> The -p<num> came from patch where it is also called --strip=num.
>>> This new option --root is about the reverse operation and it is about
>>> inserting at the beginning --- it is rerooting, in other words, but
>>> then --root is good enough and shorter. mkisofs uses the word "graft"
>>> when it allows tree shifting (enabled with --graft-points), but the
>>> word "graft" means a totally different thing to us, so we would not
>>> want to use that word.
>>>
>>> I am not complaining (--root is fine by me), but just thinking aloud,
>>> hoping somebody's brainwave is provoked while reading this babbling
>>> and comes up with a better wording ;-).
>>>
>> There is an analogous concept in patch(1), it's just implemented by
>> cd'ing to a subdirectory first. ;)
>
> Hey, "--cd=" is free! And it would make explaining easier why -p is
> applied first.
>