From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 09:04:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] apply: refuse touching a file beyond symlink
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On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:45 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Instead, for any patch in the input that leaves a path (i.e. a non
> deletion) in the result, we check all leading paths against interim
> result and then either the index or the working tree.  The interim
> results of applying patches are kept track of by fn_table logic for
> us already, so use it to fiture out if existing a symbolic link will

s/fiture/figure/
s/existing a symbolic link/an existing symbolic link/

> cause problems, if a new symbolic link that will cause problems will
> appear, etc.