Hello,
I agree with Linus that the latter is the semantics we usually
want. If we make diffcore filters stackable (I mean, the order
of applications controllable by the program and the user), we
could also have the older semantics when the user wants it, but
I would do that after this series stabilizes.
thanks for the elaboration on this topic. However at the moment I don't
have an opinion on this, I have to use it a bit longer. But it is a good
thing that I know by now that it limits its view to the subdirectory
after your patch-train is applied.
Thomas