Johannes Schindelin wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Junio C Hamano wrote:
The -p<num> came from patch where it is also called --strip=num.
This new option --root is about the reverse operation and it is about
inserting at the beginning --- it is rerooting, in other words, but
then --root is good enough and shorter. mkisofs uses the word "graft"
when it allows tree shifting (enabled with --graft-points), but the
word "graft" means a totally different thing to us, so we would not
want to use that word.
I am not complaining (--root is fine by me), but just thinking aloud,
hoping somebody's brainwave is provoked while reading this babbling
and comes up with a better wording ;-).
There is an analogous concept in patch(1), it's just implemented by
cd'ing to a subdirectory first. ;)
Hey, "--cd=" is free! And it would make explaining easier why -p is
applied first.
Although that could imply cd'ing into another git repository to some people.
-hpa
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