Re: [PATCH] archive: document --prefix handling of absolute and parent paths

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Apr 8, 2026, 17:40 UTC
Message-ID: <20260408174043.GC2850002@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20260408160005.193621-2-pushkarkumarsingh1970@gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 08, 2026 at 04:00:06PM +0000, Pushkar Singh wrote:

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>  	Prepend <prefix>/ to paths in the archive.  Can be repeated; its
>  	rightmost value is used for all tracked files.  See below which
>  	value gets used by `--add-file`.
> ++
> +The <prefix> is used as given and is not normalized. It may
> +include leading slashes or parent directory components (e.g.,
> +`../`). Some archive consumers may treat such paths as
> +potentially unsafe and adjust or warn during extraction.

Thanks, this reads fine to me.

-Peff