Re: Re* [PATCH] allow git-am to run in a subdirectory

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 10:46:31PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > The problem is that I need to turn the original "$@" into a new "$@"
> > that is correctly prefixed, which requires proper quoting.
> 
> Perhaps like this?

Yes. For some reason I didn't think of doing 'set "$@" "$new"' to
rebuild the list one by one.

> +	if test -n "$prefix" && test $# != 0
> +	then
> +		first=t
> +		for arg
> +		do
> +			test -n "$first" && {
> +				set x
> +				first=
> +			}
> +			case "$arg" in
> +			/*)
> +				set "$@" "$arg" ;;
> +			*)
> +				set "$@" "$prefix$arg" ;;
> +			esac
> +		done
> +		shift
> +	fi

This handles the mailbox parameters. The only other file parameter is
$dotest. If I do "cd t && git am --dotest=.foo", then should it be
"t/.foo" or ".foo"?

-Peff