Re: add negative -p to git-am, Re: Merge git-gui into 1.5.0 ?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 12, 2007, 12:06 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702121304450.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070212115943.GA15526@mellanox.co.il>

Hi,

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

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> > Quoting Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>:
> > Subject: add negative -p to git-am, Re: Merge git-gui into 1.5.0 ?
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > 
> > > Make git-am support "negative strip-level" patches by running it in a 
> > > subdirectory.
> > 
> > I'd rather hide this behind a command line switch to git-am, since it _is_ 
> > a feature that you do not have to cd to the repo root when git-am'ing 
> > correct patches.
> 
> Maybe it *could* be a nice feature, but it does *not* currently work,

yes, I read your email. My point was more to allow both use cases, and hide the more obscure one behind an option.

> And I think git-am is really similiar to git-apply functionally, so
> it should work in a similiar manner.

Except git-apply works without a repository, too.

Ciao, Dscho