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

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Linus Torvalds
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Josh Boyer [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

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?