Messages in this thread | | | From | Junio C Hamano <> | Subject | Re: patch-2.7.3 no longer applies relative symbolic link patches | Date | Mon, 26 Jan 2015 19:27:12 -0800 |
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-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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