On Apr 6, 2013 2:36 PM, "Alexandre Rostovtsev" <tetrom...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 20:08 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > 2. Patches have to apply to the top directory of the source tree with > > 'patch -p1'. If patches are applied to sub-directories, necessary '-p' > > argument shall be passed to 'epatch' explicitly. Developers are > > encouraged to create patches which are compatible with 'git am'. > > Please don't make -p1 into a hard requirement :/ > > There are upstreams who have different directory layouts in their scm > tree and in their source tarballs. If I clone an upstream git repository > to obtain a patch or to write a new patch that I will submit upstream, I > want to be able to apply that patch in an ebuild without having to > manually sed it to change the -p level. > > Specific examples of this among packages that I maintain: app-cdr/cdemu, > app-cdr/cdemu-daemon, sys-fs/vhba. These all use the same git tree, and > source tarballs for individual packages are created from different > subdirectories of that git tree. > >
It wouldn't be; you pass the p level in as an argument, if necessary.
