Re: Merge git-gui into 1.5.0 ?

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Feb 12, 2007, 05:48 UTC
Message-ID: <7vvei89b9k.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070212054018.GC28231@mellanox.co.il>

"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@mellanox.co.il> writes:

> Actually, -p<n> option to git-am is also useful for piping
> patches to git-am directly from mail: sometimes people would generate
> a patch by hand and this results in patches incorrect -p level.

You also would need negative -p option to deal with it as well. Think of getting "diff a/git-add.txt b/git-add.txt" and wanting to apply it to Documentation/git-add.txt.