Re: git-apply does not work in a sub-directory of a Git repository

Duy Nguyen writes: > But your suggestion is good and I can't think of any better. We could > introduce pathspec as ftiler after "--", but it does not look elegant, > and it overlaps with --include/--exclude. I was imagining that we would allow the magic pathspec syntax used

Re: git-apply does not work in a sub-directory of a Git repository

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 11:50 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > So a better alternative may be to conditionally disable the "Paths > outside are not touched regardless of --include" logic, i.e. we > exclude paths outside by default just as before, but if there is at > least one

Re: git-apply does not work in a sub-directory of a Git repository

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 11:50 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy writes: > >>> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 11:55 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: The include/exclude mechanism does use wildmatch() but does not use the

Re: git-apply does not work in a sub-directory of a Git repository

Junio C Hamano writes: > So a better alternative may be to conditionally disable the "Paths > outside are not touched regardless of --include" logic, i.e. we > exclude paths outside by default just as before, but if there is at > least one explicit "--include" given, we skip

Re: git-apply does not work in a sub-directory of a Git repository

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy writes: >> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 11:55 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >>> The include/exclude mechanism does use wildmatch() but does not use >>> the pathspec mechanism (it predates the pathspec machinery that was >>> made reusable in

Re: git-apply does not work in a sub-directory of a Git repository

Duy Nguyen writes: >> The include/exclude mechanism does use wildmatch() but does not use >> the pathspec mechanism (it predates the pathspec machinery that was >> made reusable in places like this). We should be able to >> >> $ cd d/e/e/p/d/i/r >> $ git apply

Re: git-apply does not work in a sub-directory of a Git repository

+Brian who also had issues with git-apply. On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Duy Nguyen wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 11:55 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Junio C Hamano writes: >> >>> See >>> >>>

Re: git-apply does not work in a sub-directory of a Git repository

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 11:55 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Junio C Hamano writes: > >> See >> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/288316/focus=288321 >> >> I agree it is bad that it silently ignores the path outside the >> directory.

Re: git-apply does not work in a sub-directory of a Git repository

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 8:51 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I think we do have --no-index (which is why I am largely ignoring > the rest of your message as uninformed speculation for now). --no-index command line flag is there for git-apply but unfortunately not documented. Also

Re: git-apply does not work in a sub-directory of a Git repository

Junio C Hamano writes: > See > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/288316/focus=288321 > > I agree it is bad that it silently ignores the path outside the > directory. When run with --verbose, we should say "Skipped X that > is outside the directory."

Re: git-apply does not work in a sub-directory of a Git repository

Duy Nguyen writes: > 1) add --no-index to force git-apply ignore .git, --git (or some other > name) to apply patches as if running from topdir, add a config key to > choose default behavior I think we do have --no-index (which is why I am largely ignoring the rest of your

Re: git-apply does not work in a sub-directory of a Git repository

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 5:14 AM, Stefan Beller wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> As you observed, patch wasn't applied. Is it intended behaviour of >> git-apply? Usually to apply the patch I have to copy it to top directory >> and then use git-apply. >> >> I tried out git-am to

Re: git-apply does not work in a sub-directory of a Git repository

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 5:10 AM, Mehul Jain wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Recently while using git-apply, I observed that if git-apply is used in a > sub-directory of a Git repository then it silently dies without doing > anything. > > Here's what I did > > ~ $mkdir

git-apply does not work in a sub-directory of a Git repository

Hello everyone, Recently while using git-apply, I observed that if git-apply is used in a sub-directory of a Git repository then it silently dies without doing anything. Here's what I did ~ $mkdir example ~ $cd example example $git init Initialized empty Git repository in /home/mj/example/.git/