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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach "git apply" to prepend a prefix with	"--root=<root>"
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:27:43 -0700
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Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
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Raimund Bauer wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 18:36 +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> patch uses -d or --directory

So it does.

	-hpa