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

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 9, 2013, 18:17 UTC
Message-ID: <CALkWK0nF0aTLDZyPXfa=4kp=BnDPm3+_ZfMvP_6ZcimeJtzxvw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vmwt7si6z.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> But there are other cases to attempt to add a path that do not
> belong to our project, which do not have to involve a symbolic link
> in the leading path.

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

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