Re: [PATCH] Allow passing of --directory to git-am.

Jakub Narebski wrote:

Shouldn't it be

+ directory=      pass it through git-apply

to have it aligned like the rest of it?

By the way, your patch looks whitespace damaged, although only context
for the above chunk was wrapped...

Thunderbird must have pummeled it.  No clue why it does that though. 
Black magic software.

quoted

@@ -155,8 +156,9 @@ do
  		;;
  	--resolvemsg)
  		shift; resolvemsg=$1 ;;
-	--whitespace)
-		git_apply_opt="$git_apply_opt $1=$2"; shift ;;
+	--whitespace|--directory)
+		quot=$(echo "$2" | sed -e "s/'/'\\\''/g")

Why not simply use "git rev-parse --sq"?

What I need is to convert $2 into a form suitable for quoting, does git 
rev-parse --sq do that?

quoted

+		git_apply_opt="$git_apply_opt $1='$quot'"; shift ;;
  	-C|-p)
  		git_apply_opt="$git_apply_opt $1$2"; shift ;;
  	--)

@@ -454,7 +456,7 @@ do

  	case "$resolved" in
  	'')
-		git apply $git_apply_opt --index "$dotest/patch"
+		eval git apply $git_apply_opt --index '"$dotest/patch"'

 >
 > Why eval?

I quoted the above variable, so I now need to unquote it, that's done by eval.

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