Re: [PATCH 2/2] add: refuse to add paths beyond repository boundaries

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 9, 2013, 18:50 UTC
Message-ID: <7va9p7sfl8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0nF0aTLDZyPXfa=4kp=BnDPm3+_ZfMvP_6ZcimeJtzxvw@mail.gmail.com>

Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

> The reader is now wondering what this could possibly be, and why you
> didn't send this patch earlier.

Because it wasn't written back then?

> Perhaps clarify with: s/there are
> cases/there may be cases/ and append "One such case that we currently
> don't handle yet is a path inside another git repository in our
> worktree, as demonstrated by test tXXXX.X."

I think "we currently don't handle" is a misstatement. It is not a bug that we don't.

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