Re: [PATCH] Teach 'git apply' to look at $GIT_DIR/config

Hi,

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

And I use git-apply to apply patches way more often than "patch" these 
days. And I _think_ that it is a feature that it does not cd-up before 
trying to apply the stuff. In git.git, I cannot think of a reasonable use 
case for applying something not relative-to-root, but I had that use case 
in some other (git-tracked) project.

So my vote is to leave the cwd where it is in git-apply.

I strongly disagree from my recent day-job experience. [Explains a 
convincing use case in favour of cd-up.]

Hmm. I have to think about that. But a consequence of what you suggest 
would be to disallow git-apply outside of a repository, because then you 
would introduce _another_ inconsistency (git-apply without --index would 
behave differently when inside a repo than when outside of one).

Ciao,
Dscho