Re: patch-2.7.3 no longer applies relative symbolic link patches

[Junio C Hamano]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Or did I miss a way that git-apply can take a git patch and apply it
>> to a tree that isn't a git repo?
>
> Exactly. "git apply" works as a straight "patch" replacement outside
> of a git repository. It doesn't actually need a git tree to work.

What is your take on CVE-2015-1196, which brought this /regression/ to
GNU patch?
If "git apply" get /fixed/ for that same CVE, would that /break/ your fix?
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