Re: [PATCH] Fix off by one error in prep_exclude.

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 28, 2008, 09:22 UTC
Message-ID: <7vlk6auwxs.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <479D9ADE.6010003@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

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> Junio C Hamano schrieb:
> ...
>> Yeah, /*bin is not inside the repository so it should not even
>> be reported as "others".  Shouldn't the commands detect this and
>> reject feeding such paths outside the work tree to the core,
>> which always expect you to talk about paths inside?
>
> That's what I had expected. But look:
> ...
> Some mechanism for this is already there; it's just not complete enough.

Exactly. That was what I've been getting at from the beginning of this thread --- fix for that incompleteness is what's needed.

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