From: Torsten Bögershausen Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 05:56:19 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] apply: reject input that touches outside $cwd Message-ID: <54D06303.7050100@web.de> In-Reply-To: <1422919650-13346-2-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> If I am allowed to to some load thinking: The commit msh header says: reject input that touches outside $cwd The commit message says: By default, a patch that affects outside the working area And the new command line option is this: --unsafe-paths (Which may be a good choice to pretend people from using it without having read the documentaion) (And isn't working area the same as "work space" ?) I have the slight feeling that there may be more unsafe-path situations coming up in the future.. Will --allow-outside-ws or --patch-outside-ws be better ?