From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 08:52:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-update-index.txt: Remove obsolete note
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=gadRz0XXp2Jd1Jnv7hH4fbnE45Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v7hbfj7d6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 4:41 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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?
>

Yes it's more like that.
-- 
Duy