Hi, On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > I agree that it is sensible, but it's sensible only within the context of > > purely self-generated patches, where the patch itself was generated not > > just with git, but with that exact project. > > That makes sense, except that the patch could be made with any > other tools; it just has to follow the "patch is from the top of > the tree, with -p1" convention. > > I think it might make sense to change (this might have to be > read "break", unfortunately) "git apply" for all three cases. Just for the subdirectory case. > So the new rule, which would affect only when you run from a > subdirectory, would be that "diff -u a/foo b/foo" would be parsed, 1 > level (or -p <n> levels) of leading paths stripped, and then prefix is > added to form "new" and "old" filenames. Wouldn't it be easier to just cd to the prefix? > And I think Johannes is happy with that change as well. Yes, thank you. 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