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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?" -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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