Re: [PATCH] Teach "git apply" to prepend a prefix with "--root=<root>"

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > 
> > The -p<num> came from patch where it is also called --strip=num.  
> > This new option --root is about the reverse operation and it is about 
> > inserting at the beginning --- it is rerooting, in other words, but 
> > then --root is good enough and shorter.  mkisofs uses the word "graft" 
> > when it allows tree shifting (enabled with --graft-points), but the 
> > word "graft" means a totally different thing to us, so we would not 
> > want to use that word.
> > 
> > I am not complaining (--root is fine by me), but just thinking aloud, 
> > hoping somebody's brainwave is provoked while reading this babbling 
> > and comes up with a better wording ;-).
> > 
> 
> There is an analogous concept in patch(1), it's just implemented by 
> cd'ing to a subdirectory first.  ;)