From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:25:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] format-patch: add --filename-prefix to prepend a prefix to output file names
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In-Reply-To: <1244963400-1739-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy  <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

>  > I am not saying we must allow a slash in the prefix and create necessary
>  > leading paths ourselves, nor we must check for a slash and fail in the
>  > input validation phase, but I am wondering if we can have some clever way
>  > to internally unify the handling of this new option with --outdir.
>
>  Hardly, the way it is handled now (chdir()ing to --outdir, then write patches)

Ah, true enough.  Thanks.