+* Add an option to cut away the first N output path elements:
+
+ From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de>
+ Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:55:31 +0200
+
+ some archives have members like
+ foo/bar
+ foo/baz
+ foo/bam
+
+ When I now want to extract the three members bar, baz and bam to the
+ directory fom instead foo, I need to extract to foo and then to move
+ the files over manually.
+
+ patch(1) solves that problem by offering an option taking the number
+ of path elements to cut away before using the path name. With an
+ option like that, the above problem could be solved with
+
+ tar --extract --cut-path-elements 1 --directory fom
+