Re: [PATCH] format-patch: add --filename-prefix to prepend a prefix to output file names

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy  [off-list ref] writes:

 > I am not saying we must allow a slash in the prefix and create necessary
 > leading paths ourselves, nor we must check for a slash and fail in the
 > input validation phase, but I am wondering if we can have some clever way
 > to internally unify the handling of this new option with --outdir.

 Hardly, the way it is handled now (chdir()ing to --outdir, then write patches)

Ah, true enough.  Thanks.