Re: [PATCH v2] apply: normalize path in --directory argument

> From: Joaquim Rocha <joaquim@amutable.com>
>
> When passing a relative path like --directory=./some/sub, the leading
> "./" caused apply to prepend it literally to patch filenames, resulting
> in an error (invalid path).
> There may be more cases like this where users pass some/./path to the
> directory which can easily be normalized to an acceptable path, so
> these changes try to normalize the path before using it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joaquim Rocha <joaquim@amutable.com>
> ---
>     apply: strip ./ prefix from --directory argument
>     
>     Changes since v1:
>     
>      * Normalized the path as Patrick recommended