On Sunday, November 06, 2011 11:55 AM, "Stefan Sperling" <s...@elego.de> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 03:28:06AM +0400, Konstantin Kolinko wrote: > > - paths start with "a/" and not "a/trunk" > > > > Thus it is to be applied with "--strip 1". > > This is something where git and Subversion have to differ. > Subversion has to express paths relative to the repository root. > Otherwise, copyfrom would be ambiguous. This is documented in the 1.7 > release notes. >
FWIW, this point particularly annoys me. "a/" prefixes mean gf in vim doesn't work, and when I try to disable them locally (via some dotfile option that I've misplaced) people complain that the Standard Method for applying patches (in Git projects) breaks.
