From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:27:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach "git apply" to prepend a prefix with "--root=<root>"
Message-ID: <486A933F.9090001@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <1214935848.6619.1.camel@doriath>

Raimund Bauer wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 18:36 +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> patch uses -d or --directory

So it does.

	-hpa