Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 1) add --no-index to force git-apply ignore .git, --git (or some other > name) to apply patches as if running from topdir, add a config key to > choose default behavior I think we do have --no-index (which is why I am largely ignoring the rest of your message as uninformed speculation for now). See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/288316/focus=288321 I agree it is bad that it silently ignores the path outside the directory. When run with --verbose, we should say "Skipped X that is outside the directory." or something like that, just like we issue notices when we applied with offset, etc. -- 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