From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:57:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach "git apply" to prepend a prefix with "--root=<root>"
Message-ID: <486A61E5.1070208@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0807011835090.32725@wbgn129.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 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.
> 

Although that could imply cd'ing into another git repository to some people.

	-hpa