perf: add test showing exponential growth in path globbing

diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
index 5444d2ffebe601ec1cfced5232f1f7521878e76a..631cbd840a08eb29add1e900ac9272992669a75c 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
 Reads the supplied diff output (i.e. "a patch") and applies it to files.
+When running from a subdirectory in a repository, patched paths
+outside the directory are ignored.
 With the `--index` option the patch is also applied to the index, and
 with the `--cached` option the patch is only applied to the index.
 Without these options, the command applies the patch only to files,
@@ -106,10 +108,9 @@ the information is read from the current index instead.
        When `--numstat` has been given, do not munge pathnames,
        but use a NUL-terminated machine-readable format.
 +
-Without this option, each pathname output will have TAB, LF, double quotes,
-and backslash characters replaced with `\t`, `\n`, `\"`, and `\\`,
-respectively, and the pathname will be enclosed in double quotes if
-any of those replacements occurred.
+Without this option, pathnames with "unusual" characters are quoted as
+explained for the configuration variable `core.quotePath` (see
+linkgit:git-config[1]).
 
 -p<n>::
        Remove <n> leading slashes from traditional diff paths. The