From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:08:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Re* [PATCH] allow git-am to run in a subdirectory
Message-ID: <7vhcfojndo.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080303065808.GA22810@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> The only other file parameter is
> $dotest. If I do "cd t && git am --dotest=.foo", then should it be
> "t/.foo" or ".foo"?

That brings up an interesting point.

Have people actually used --dotest=<foo> ever?

As far as I know, I do not think it was useful in the real world.  Too
many things assumed that the spool directory for "am" is .dotest.

And I am very much tempted to say we should remove that option.