From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 06:34:03 GMT
Subject: Re: patch-2.7.3 no longer applies relative symbolic link patches
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Subject: [PATCH] apply: refuse touching a file beyond symlink
>
> Because Git tracks symbolic links as symbolic links, a path that has
> a symbolic link in its leading part (e.g. path/to/dir being a
> symbolic link to somewhere else, be it inside or outside the working
> tree) can never appear in a patch that validly apply, unless the
> same patch first removes the symbolic link.

I should rephrase the above to make it more readable.

    ... its leading part (e.g. path/to/dir/file, where path/to/dir is a
    symbolic link to somewhere else, ...

is what I meant to say.