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Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:14:54 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id d5e865fd (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:14:51 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:14:46 +0100 From: Patrick Steinhardt To: Junio C Hamano Cc: Joaquim Rocha via GitGitGadget , git@vger.kernel.org, Joaquim Rocha , Joaquim Rocha Subject: Re: [PATCH] apply: strip ./ prefix from --directory argument Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 12:27:39PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Patrick Steinhardt writes: > > > While this change here fixes your observed issues, the next person might > > run into a totally different one. So more generally, I think what we'd > > rather want to do is to fully normalize the path. How about this > > instead: > > Sorry, but I am confused. Why isn't "don't do it then" a good > answer for a case like this? I guess that's fair, but especially with command line completion it might be easy to arrive at such paths. That may or may not be a good argument, I'm not sure myself. Patrick