From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 15:21:42 GMT
Subject: Re: git-apply does not work in a sub-directory of a Git repository
Message-ID: <xmqqbn65dxtl.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8DCk5YintK3PoO1BWdNmsiSLpAcGL4pU7QgNEG6S41CsQ@mail.gmail.com>

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> 1) add --no-index to force git-apply ignore .git, --git (or some other
> name) to apply patches as if running from topdir, add a config key to
> choose default behavior

I think we do have --no-index (which is why I am largely ignoring
the rest of your message as uninformed speculation for now).

See

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/288316/focus=288321

I agree it is bad that it silently ignores the path outside the
directory.  When run with --verbose, we should say "Skipped X that
is outside the directory." or something like that, just like we
issue notices when we applied with offset, etc.