Re: [PATCH] Fix off by one error in prep_exclude.

Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] writes:

Junio C Hamano schrieb:
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Yeah, /*bin is not inside the repository so it should not even
be reported as "others".  Shouldn't the commands detect this and
reject feeding such paths outside the work tree to the core,
which always expect you to talk about paths inside?

That's what I had expected. But look:
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Some mechanism for this is already there; it's just not complete enough.

Exactly. That was what I've been getting at from the beginning
of this thread --- fix for that incompleteness is what's needed.