Re: [PATCH] Teach 'git apply' to look at $GIT_DIR/config

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Feb 18, 2007, 00:31 UTC
Message-ID: <7v64a0qpa8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702180105000.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> ... However, I suspect you have to 'cd' back to prefix, or else 
> the patch gets applied in the repo root, right? (Disclaimer: I did not 
> read the patch.)

Actually, not cd-ing up was a bug, since git diff is always relative to root. The behaviour to apply the same file was inconsistent between with --index and without as far as I can tell.

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