From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 03:27:12 GMT
Subject: Re: patch-2.7.3 no longer applies relative symbolic link patches
Message-ID: <xmqqzj94lx7z.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFxbY21vBbPs5qCFPT1HSBbaeS+Z2Fr9So1r3rXrMWe_ZQ@mail.gmail.com>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> Ugh. I don't see anything we can do about this on the git side, and I
> do kind of understand why 'patch' would be worried about '..' files.
> In a perfect world, patch would parse the filename and see that it
> stays within the directory structure of the project, but that is a
> rather harder thing to do than just say "no dot-dot files".

It is unclear to me why "limit to the current directory and below"
is such a big deal in the first place.

If the user wants to apply a patch that touches ../etc/shadow, is
the tool in the place to complain?"