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Date:	Mon, 26 Jan 2015 19:27:12 -0800
From:	Junio C Hamano <gitster@...ox.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>,
	"Linux-Kernel\@Vger. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	twaugh@...hat.com, Git Mailing List <git@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: patch-2.7.3 no longer applies relative symbolic link patches

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> writes:

> Ugh. I don't see anything we can do about this on the git side, and I
> do kind of understand why 'patch' would be worried about '..' files.
> In a perfect world, patch would parse the filename and see that it
> stays within the directory structure of the project, but that is a
> rather harder thing to do than just say "no dot-dot files".

It is unclear to me why "limit to the current directory and below"
is such a big deal in the first place.

If the user wants to apply a patch that touches ../etc/shadow, is
the tool in the place to complain?"
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