Why -p0 format patches?

[Martin Pool]

On 11 Jul 2005, Michael Ellerman <michael at ellerman.id.au> wrote:

> Just a query, what was the reasoning behind "bzr diff" producing -p0 patches 
> rather than -p1 patches? Because CVS/svn/.. do it?

It's a bit arbitrary; I think some people in the early days preferred
it.  Is there any stronger reason than personal preference for one or
the other?

> It's a bit of a pain for me, being used to -p1 format. And I notice now that 
> changesets look like:
> 
> +++ TARGETbzrlib/commands.py

I thought that was just a bug?  If we're going to have prefixes it'd
definitely be better to use -p1.


> 
> Which is kind of a hack, and would look nicer as:
> 
> +++ TARGET/bzrlib/commands.py
> 
> Just a thought. I guess it's too late now anyway.
> 
> cheers
> 


-- 
Martin