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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Pushkar Singh <pushkarkumarsingh1970@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] archive: document --prefix handling of absolute and parent paths
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2026 13:40:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260408174043.GC2850002@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260408160005.193621-2-pushkarkumarsingh1970@gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 08, 2026 at 04:00:06PM +0000, Pushkar Singh wrote:

>  	Prepend <prefix>/ 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 <prefix> 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.

Thanks, this reads fine to me.

-Peff

      reply	other threads:[~2026-04-08 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-07 16:21 [RFC] archive: behavior of --prefix with absolute or parent path components Pushkar Singh
2026-04-07 19:24 ` Jeff King
2026-04-07 19:57   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-04-07 22:24   ` brian m. carlson
2026-04-08 16:00 ` [PATCH] archive: document --prefix handling of absolute and parent paths Pushkar Singh
2026-04-08 17:40   ` Jeff King [this message]

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