"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Actually, -p<n> option to git-am is also useful for piping > patches to git-am directly from mail: sometimes people would generate > a patch by hand and this results in patches incorrect -p level. You also would need negative -p option to deal with it as well. Think of getting "diff a/git-add.txt b/git-add.txt" and wanting to apply it to Documentation/git-add.txt. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html