From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 01:29:17 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach 'git apply' to look at $GIT_DIR/config Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vhctkp8gk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Hi, On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin writes: > > > And I use git-apply to apply patches way more often than "patch" these > > days. And I _think_ that it is a feature that it does not cd-up before > > trying to apply the stuff. In git.git, I cannot think of a reasonable use > > case for applying something not relative-to-root, but I had that use case > > in some other (git-tracked) project. > > > > So my vote is to leave the cwd where it is in git-apply. > > I strongly disagree from my recent day-job experience. [Explains a > convincing use case in favour of cd-up.] Hmm. I have to think about that. But a consequence of what you suggest would be to disallow git-apply outside of a repository, because then you would introduce _another_ inconsistency (git-apply without --index would behave differently when inside a repo than when outside of one). Ciao, Dscho