From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@gnu.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: patch-2.7.3 no longer applies relative symbolic link patches
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:26:01 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ma8am9$t01$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CA+55aFxbY21vBbPs5qCFPT1HSBbaeS+Z2Fr9So1r3rXrMWe_ZQ@mail.gmail.com
On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:44:33 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I've considered that for a while already, because "patch" _does_ kind of
> understand them these days, although I think it gets the cross-rename
> case wrong because it fundamentally works on a file-by-file basis.
Patch handles cross-renames correctly nowadays; if not, it's a bug.
That's not enough to solve the symlink problem unfortunately.
Andreas
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From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@gnu.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: patch-2.7.3 no longer applies relative symbolic link patches
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:26:01 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ma8am9$t01$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CA+55aFxbY21vBbPs5qCFPT1HSBbaeS+Z2Fr9So1r3rXrMWe_ZQ@mail.gmail.com
On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:44:33 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I've considered that for a while already, because "patch" _does_ kind of
> understand them these days, although I think it gets the cross-rename
> case wrong because it fundamentally works on a file-by-file basis.
Patch handles cross-renames correctly nowadays; if not, it's a bug.
That's not enough to solve the symlink problem unfortunately.
Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-27 15:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-26 16:29 patch-2.7.3 no longer applies relative symbolic link patches Josh Boyer
2015-01-26 16:32 ` Josh Boyer
2015-01-26 20:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-01-26 21:01 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-26 21:07 ` Josh Boyer
2015-01-26 21:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-01-26 21:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-01-26 21:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-01-27 15:47 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-01-31 21:27 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-01-26 22:15 ` Josh Boyer
2015-01-27 3:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-01-27 20:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-01-29 6:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-01-29 6:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-01-29 20:45 ` [PATCH] apply: refuse touching a file beyond symlink Junio C Hamano
2015-01-29 22:15 ` Stefan Beller
2015-01-29 23:48 ` [PATCH 2/1] apply: reject input that touches outside $cwd Junio C Hamano
2015-01-30 18:24 ` Jeff King
2015-01-30 19:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-01-30 19:16 ` Jeff King
2015-01-30 9:04 ` [PATCH] apply: refuse touching a file beyond symlink Christian Couder
2015-01-30 18:11 ` Jeff King
2015-01-30 19:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-01-30 19:46 ` Jeff King
2015-01-30 19:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-01-30 20:07 ` Jeff King
2015-01-30 20:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-01-30 20:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-01-30 20:16 ` Jeff King
2015-01-30 20:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-01-30 20:48 ` Jeff King
2015-01-30 21:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-01-30 21:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-01-27 15:26 ` Andreas Gruenbacher [this message]
2015-01-27 15:26 ` patch-2.7.3 no longer applies relative symbolic link patches Andreas Gruenbacher
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