Stefan Sperling:

> > It is possible that histedit and merge have the same problem.
> 
> Source inspection suggests these commands do not share this problem.
> The path-prefix is already verified before the work tree is prepared
> for a histedit/merge operation.

Yup, I checked histedit, and it errors out without putting the
worktree in an odd state.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de