If you are in a subdirectory of your working copy (for instance,
linux-2.6/drivers/net) and use git-format-patch with -o to a sequence of
../ (for instance, -o ../../../) to write to the working copy's parent
directory, it instead interprets the directory passed to -o as relative
to the root of the working copy, instead of the expected current directory.
Testcase:
mkdir a
cd a
git init
mkdir b
touch b/c
git add b/c
git commit -m 'test'
cd b
echo 'test' > c
git commit -a -m 'test'
git format-patch -o ../ HEAD^..HEAD
Expected result: put the patch within the "a" directory
Result with v1.6.1: put the patch within the parent of the "a" directory
(This testcase uses ../ instead of ../../ to avoid putting the patch
file in an unexpected place, like in your home directory, which is what
would happen in practice.)
--
Cesar Eduardo Barros
cesarb@xxxxxxxxxx
cesar.barros@xxxxxxxxx
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