This allows to pass patches around from repositories,
where the other repository doesn't feature certain files.
In the special case this works for dash git sync to klibc dash:
git am --directory="usr/dash" --exclude="usr/dash/configure.ac" \
--exclude="usr/dash/ChangeLog" --exclude="usr/dash/dash.1" \
.. -i -s -k ../dash/000X-foo.patch
Signed-off-by: maximilian attems <max@stro.at> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>