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worktree: incorrect handling of directory argument

Subject: worktree: incorrect handling of directory argument

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martin f krafft· May 9, 2008, 23:12 UTC · lore

Hi,

If I set core.worktree to ../.. instead of ../../, then a file foo will be unpacked by checkout-index to be the literal ../..foo, not ../../foo. I suppose core.worktree should always be treated as a directory.

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