[PATCH 5 of 5 relative-diff] patch.diff: add support for diffs relative to a subdirectory
Siddharth Agarwal
sid at less-broken.com
Sun Mar 22 21:39:01 CDT 2015
On 03/18/2015 06:29 AM, Martin von Zweigbergk wrote:
> And if there are paths outside "mercurial/", they are ignored?
Yeah. That's the same as saying hg diff mercurial/ so I don't think it's
surprising.
> I found that a little surprising. I see that git made the same
> decision. I would probably have expected it to fail. What do people
> want this feature for?
We're merging a bunch of repos into a single one (mirroring them as
subdirectories), and during the transition have patches that are
generated from the unified repo that need to be applied onto the
individual repos, and the other way round.
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