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.
