From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 21:25:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] setup: allow for prefix to be passed to git commands
Message-ID: <xmqqinn761f7.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170317210031.GA63813@google.com>

Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> writes:

> I don't think that prefix can ever have ".." in it.  From what I
> understand it is always a path from the root of the repository to the
> cwd that the git command was invoked by.  So in your example prefix
> would be "src/".

The prefix would be NULL or "", as you will be at the root-level of
the working tree when you are running _IN_ the submodule (by
recursing into it).  Not src/, nor anything with ../ in it, I would
think.