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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Pascal Obry <pascal.obry@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, pascal@obry.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add format-patch option --no-name-prefix.
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:54:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4767ED52.9010004@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1197992574-3464-1-git-send-email-pascal@obry.net>

Pascal Obry schrieb:
> This option can be used to generate a patch file
> where file names are relative to the Git root
> directory. Such a patch can then be applied with
> the standard patch tool using option -p0.

While I've always wondered what the a/ and b/ prefixes were good for (and
I still do), I also wonder what's so different between typing

     patch -p0
and
     patch -p1

that we need another diff option for it. Ok, on my keyboard 0 is typed
with the right hand, and 1 with the left hand, but... ??

-- Hannes

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-18 15:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-18 15:42 [PATCH] Add format-patch option --no-name-prefix Pascal Obry
2007-12-18 15:47 ` Pascal Obry
2007-12-18 15:54 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2007-12-18 15:59   ` Pascal Obry
2007-12-18 16:50     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-18 16:54       ` Pascal Obry
2007-12-18 17:06       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-18 17:56         ` Pascal Obry
2007-12-18 18:56           ` [PATCH] Teach diff machinery to display other prefixes than "a/" and "b/" Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-18 19:03             ` Pascal Obry
2007-12-18 19:05             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-18 19:32               ` [PATCH v4] " Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-18 19:55                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-18 20:07       ` [PATCH] Add format-patch option --no-name-prefix Junio C Hamano
2007-12-18 16:03 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-12-18 16:11   ` Pascal Obry
2007-12-19  8:55     ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-12-19  9:21       ` Johannes Sixt
2007-12-18 16:21 ` [PATCH] Teach diff machinery to display other prefixes than "a/" and "b/" Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-18 16:45   ` Pascal Obry
2007-12-18 16:58     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-18 17:02     ` Matthieu Moy

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