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Signed-off-by: Pushkar Singh --- Documentation/git-archive.adoc | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.adoc b/Documentation/git-archive.adoc index a0e3fe7996..086bade6d8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-archive.adoc +++ b/Documentation/git-archive.adoc @@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ OPTIONS Prepend / to paths in the archive. Can be repeated; its rightmost value is used for all tracked files. See below which value gets used by `--add-file`. ++ +The is used as given and is not normalized. It may +include leading slashes or parent directory components (e.g., +`../`). Some archive consumers may treat such paths as +potentially unsafe and adjust or warn during extraction. -o :: --output=:: -- 2.53.0.582.gca1db8a0f7