Teach "git apply" to prepend a prefix with "--root=<root>"
With "git apply --root=<root>", all file names in the patch are prepended
with <root>. If a "-p" value was given, the paths are stripped _before_
prepending <root>.
Wished for by HPA.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/builtin-apply.c b/builtin-apply.c
index c497889..bf52896 100644
--- a/builtin-apply.c
+++ b/builtin-apply.c
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@
static int squelch_whitespace_errors = 5;
static int applied_after_fixing_ws;
static const char *patch_input_file;
+static const char *root;
+static int root_len;
static void parse_whitespace_option(const char *option)
{
@@ -331,6 +333,8 @@
*/
strbuf_remove(&name, 0, cp - name.buf);
free(def);
+ if (root)
+ strbuf_insert(&name, 0, root, root_len);
return strbuf_detach(&name, NULL);
}
}
@@ -369,6 +373,14 @@
free(def);
}
+ if (root) {
+ char *ret = xmalloc(root_len + len + 1);
+ strcpy(ret, root);
+ memcpy(ret + root_len, start, len);
+ ret[root_len + len] = '\0';
+ return ret;
+ }
+
return xmemdupz(start, len);
}
@@ -3118,6 +3130,18 @@
inaccurate_eof = 1;
continue;
}
+ if (!strncmp(arg, "--root=", strlen("--root="))) {
+ arg += strlen("--root=");
+ root_len = strlen(arg);
+ if (root_len && arg[root_len + 1] != '/') {
+ char *new_root;
+ root = new_root = xmalloc(root_len + 2);
+ strcpy(new_root, arg);
+ strcpy(new_root + root_len++, "/");
+ } else
+ root = arg;
+ continue;
+ }
if (0 < prefix_length)
arg = prefix_filename(prefix, prefix_length, arg);
