Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-update-index.txt: Remove obsolete note

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On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 4:41 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Jakob Pfender <jpfender@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 8dcf39 (Prevent bogus paths from being added to the index) introduced a
>>> check for files beginning with '.', preventing path names such as
>>> `./file`, `dir/./file` or `dir/../file` from being added. This was
>>> reflected in the man page.
>>>
>>> d089eba (setup: sanitize absolute and funny paths in get_pathspec())
>>> removed this check without reflecting the change in the man page.
>>
>> Sounds good.
>
> When I first read it, however, I thought that the "removal" meant that the
> rewrite made the code riskier by accepting nonsense, which turns out not
> to be what the author meant. ÂIt was more like "instead of rejecting,
> accept these paths after normalizing", no?
>

Yes it's more like that.
-- 
Duy
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