Merge branch 'ps/archive-prefix-doc' into next

Doc update.

* ps/archive-prefix-doc:
  archive: document --prefix handling of absolute and parent paths
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Junio C Hamano
2026-04-09 11:24:04 -07:00

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@@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ OPTIONS
Prepend <prefix>/ to paths in the archive. Can be repeated; its
rightmost value is used for all tracked files. See below which
value gets used by `--add-file`.
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The <prefix> is used as given and is not normalized. It may
include leading slashes or parent directory components (e.g.,
`../`). Some archive consumers may treat such paths as
potentially unsafe and adjust or warn during extraction.
-o <file>::
--output=<file>::