Hi, On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > > And I use git-apply to apply patches way more often than "patch" these > > days. And I _think_ that it is a feature that it does not cd-up before > > trying to apply the stuff. In git.git, I cannot think of a reasonable use > > case for applying something not relative-to-root, but I had that use case > > in some other (git-tracked) project. > > > > So my vote is to leave the cwd where it is in git-apply. > > I strongly disagree from my recent day-job experience. [Explains a > convincing use case in favour of cd-up.] Hmm. I have to think about that. But a consequence of what you suggest would be to disallow git-apply outside of a repository, because then you would introduce _another_ inconsistency (git-apply without --index would behave differently when inside a repo than when outside of one). Ciao, Dscho - 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