Re: [PATCH] Teach 'git apply' to look at $GIT_DIR/config

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Feb 20, 2007, 01:28 UTC
Message-ID: <7v7iud4nyo.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702191601300.20368@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

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> On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 
>> Hmm.  I am puzzled.  Are you suggesting to change behaviour of
>> "git apply" with --index?
>
> Yeah. Or at least _verify_ that the patch is within the subdirectory we 
> are in right now. Right now, we do neither, and it will actually change 
> files outside that subdirectory, which I think is a bit dangerous.

I think use_patch() has always took care of that.

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