From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:37:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Better suggestions when git-am(1) fails
Message-ID: <ZA9RYncZaqoA0mCw@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqh6us7epk.fsf@gitster.g>

On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 08:28:55AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> >   1. I feel like "-p1" was pretty standard even before Git. You'd
> >      extract two copies of the tarball, one into "foo-1.2.3" and one
> >      into "foo-1.2.3.orig", and then "diff -Nru" between them to send a
> >      patch.
> 
> I would too, but then we wouldn't have accepted the request to add
> .noprefix configuration; I do not recall where it came from.

I always thought it was an aesthetic thing for humans viewing diffs (and
likewise mnemonicprefix). The original thread doesn't give much
motivation, though:

  https://lore.kernel.org/git/1272852221-14927-1-git-send-email-eli@cloudera.com/

That is not really important as what the option has grown to be used
for, of course, but it's another data point (or lack thereof in this
case).

-Peff