Messages in this thread | | | From | Junio C Hamano <> | Subject | Re: patch-2.7.3 no longer applies relative symbolic link patches | Date | Wed, 28 Jan 2015 22:34:03 -0800 |
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> Subject: [PATCH] apply: refuse touching a file beyond symlink > > Because Git tracks symbolic links as symbolic links, a path that has > a symbolic link in its leading part (e.g. path/to/dir being a > symbolic link to somewhere else, be it inside or outside the working > tree) can never appear in a patch that validly apply, unless the > same patch first removes the symbolic link.
I should rephrase the above to make it more readable.
... its leading part (e.g. path/to/dir/file, where path/to/dir is a symbolic link to somewhere else, ...
is what I meant to say.
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