patchfiles and specifying -p

[Blair Zajac]

How about extending patchfiles to specify the number of directory path elements 
to strip from the patch, like patch's -p?

This would allow us to use upstream patches without modification if they are 
generated with git, which prepends "a/" and "b/" to the paths.

The format could be

patchfiles foo.diff:2

which would be equivalent to "patch -p2 < foo.diff".

Blair

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