Re: [PATCH] apply: strip ./ prefix from --directory argument

From: Joaquim Rocha <joaquim@amutable.com>
Date: Feb 18, 2026, 14:40 UTC
Message-ID: <CAFJE3DEro4B+UReO0+639hrdUvFUSB6-v7LOxPFU05q15zgakQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <aZXJVtgRYQAnxNnE@pks.im>

On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 2:14 PM Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> wrote:

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> I guess that's fair, but especially with command line completion it
> might be easy to arrive at such paths. That may or may not be a good
> argument, I'm not sure myself.
>
> Patrick

I understand that. TBH, while not at your (plural) level of expertise in git, I am certainly an experienced user and still the error from the ./ use got me confused. So my proposal goes towards developer experience, like the similar command suggestions it also has. If there's no down side to it, I think it makes sense to have it.

An alternative would be to have a better error message if we detect there are redundant path artifacts, but in that case why wouldn't we just normalize the path as it's the user's clear intention?

Cheers,

Joaquim Rocha