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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Subject: Re: add negative -p to git-am, Re: Merge git-gui into 1.5.0 ?
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:26:07 +0200
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> > > > Make git-am support "negative strip-level" patches by running it in a 
> > > > subdirectory.
> > > 
> > > I'd rather hide this behind a command line switch to git-am, since it _is_ 
> > > a feature that you do not have to cd to the repo root when git-am'ing 
> > > correct patches.
> > 
> > Maybe it *could* be a nice feature, but it does *not* currently work,
> 
> yes, I read your email. My point was more to allow both use cases, and 
> hide the more obscure one behind an option.

I guess one person's obscure case is the other's common one.

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MST