Re: [PATCH 1/4] get_pathspec(): die when an out-of-tree path is given

Robin Rosenberg [off-list ref] writes:

My gcc refuses to cooperate, giving me SEGV at line 666 or combine-diff, so 
I'll ask instead of testing.

Do absolute paths to diff still work without exiting?

They should, as long as they name inside work tree paths.

As far as I know, the bolted-on "work on files outside" code does not feed
the paths to get_pathspec() (and it shouldn't --- that mode is not a git
operation to begin with, and should work even without having a work tree,
so there is no valid base to make the paths relative to).

But it needs to be checked.