Re: git-apply does not work in a sub-directory of a Git repository
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> So a better alternative may be to conditionally disable the "Paths
> outside are not touched regardless of --include" logic, i.e. we
> exclude paths outside by default just as before, but if there is at
> least one explicit "--include" given, we skip this "return 0".
>
> That way, we do not have to commit to turning --include/--exclude to
> pathspec (which I agree is a huge change in behaviour that may not
> be a good idea) and we do not have to add "--full-tree" that is only
> understood by "apply" but not other commands that operate on the
> current directory by default.
And the necessary change to do so may look like this. With this:
$ git show >P
$ git reset --hard HEAD^
$ cd t
$ git apply -v ../P
$ git apply -v --include=\* ../Pseem to work as expected.
diff --git a/builtin/apply.c b/builtin/apply.c
index c993333..1af3f7e 100644
--- a/builtin/apply.c
+++ b/builtin/apply.c
@@ -1955,8 +1955,8 @@ static int use_patch(struct patch *p)
const char *pathname = p->new_name ? p->new_name : p->old_name;
int i;
- /* Paths outside are not touched regardless of "--include" */
- if (0 < prefix_length) {
+ /* Paths outside are not touched when there is no explicit "--include" */
+ if (!has_include && 0 < prefix_length) {
int pathlen = strlen(pathname);
if (pathlen <= prefix_length ||
memcmp(prefix, pathname, prefix_length))
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>