From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:41:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-update-index.txt: Remove obsolete note
Message-ID: <7v7hbfj7d6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik3nEE2mtpRVwuQxfoNZd8Ejpgc=T=GS_jEpXsB@mail.gmail.com>

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Jakob Pfender <jpfender@elegosoft.com> wrote:
>> 8dcf39 (Prevent bogus paths from being added to the index) introduced a
>> check for files beginning with '.', preventing path names such as
>> `./file`, `dir/./file` or `dir/../file` from being added. This was
>> reflected in the man page.
>>
>> d089eba (setup: sanitize absolute and funny paths in get_pathspec())
>> removed this check without reflecting the change in the man page.
>
> Sounds good.

When I first read it, however, I thought that the "removal" meant that the
rewrite made the code riskier by accepting nonsense, which turns out not
to be what the author meant.  It was more like "instead of rejecting,
accept these paths after normalizing", no?