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Re: [PATCH 2/1] apply: reject input that touches outside $cwd

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jan 30, 2015, 19:16 UTC
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<20150130191621.GA30156@peff.net>
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On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 11:07:34AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > It looks like your new --allow-uplevel goes to verify_path(). So this
> > isn't just about "..", but it will also protect against applying a patch
> > inside ".git". Which seems like a good thing to me, but I wonder if the
> > option name is a little misleading.
> 
> True; not just misleading but is incorrect, I would say.
> Suggestions?

I think just "--verify-paths" (and "--no-verify-paths", since the former would be the default) might be fine. That leaves the definition of "verify" vague, but I think that's OK. It used to mean "no '..' and no '.git'", and now it has been widened to include "no weird filesystem-specific variants of .git".

If you wanted to avoid the negative being the commonly used option, maybe "--unsafe-paths" (or "--allow-unsafe-paths" if you like verbs).

-Peff
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