From e36f8b6034f9df7e7b0aea912d1c8e850503623e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:36:24 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Make apply accept the -pNUM option like patch does.

This only applies to traditional diffs, not to git diffs.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
---
 Documentation/git-apply.txt | 6 +++++-
 apply.c                     | 8 ++++++--
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
index 51c7d47092..75076b6121 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
 'git-apply' [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index] [--apply]
-	  [--no-add] [--index-info] [--allow-binary-replacement] [-z]
+	  [--no-add] [--index-info] [--allow-binary-replacement] [-z] [-pNUM]
 	  [<patch>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -68,6 +68,10 @@ OPTIONS
 	backslash characters replaced with `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`,
 	respectively.
 
+-p<n>::
+	Remove <n> leading slashes from traditional diff paths. The
+	default is 1.
+
 --apply::
 	If you use any of the options marked ``Turns off
 	"apply"'' above, git-apply reads and outputs the
diff --git a/apply.c b/apply.c
index c471a82e83..79e23a7fb9 100644
--- a/apply.c
+++ b/apply.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 static const char *prefix;
 static int prefix_length = -1;
 
+static int p_value = 1;
 static int allow_binary_replacement = 0;
 static int check_index = 0;
 static int write_index = 0;
@@ -31,7 +32,7 @@ static int no_add = 0;
 static int show_index_info = 0;
 static int line_termination = '\n';
 static const char apply_usage[] =
-"git-apply [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index] [--apply] [--no-add] [--index-info] [--allow-binary-replacement] [-z] <patch>...";
+"git-apply [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index] [--apply] [--no-add] [--index-info] [--allow-binary-replacement] [-z] [-pNUM] <patch>...";
 
 /*
  * For "diff-stat" like behaviour, we keep track of the biggest change
@@ -217,7 +218,6 @@ static char * find_name(const char *line, char *def, int p_value, int terminate)
  */
 static void parse_traditional_patch(const char *first, const char *second, struct patch *patch)
 {
-	int p_value = 1;
 	char *name;
 
 	first += 4;	// skip "--- "
@@ -1799,6 +1799,10 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 			excludes = x;
 			continue;
 		}
+		if (!strncmp(arg, "-p", 2)) {
+			p_value = atoi(arg + 2);
+			continue;
+		}
 		if (!strcmp(arg, "--no-add")) {
 			no_add = 1;
 			continue;