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From: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: GIT Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: "git-checkout-cache -f -a" failure
Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 23:04:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <118833cc05050920045204db03@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v64xru83t.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

> Changing files vs directories _is_ a big change and happens
> rarely in practice; I think the current behaviour is
> justified---it makes the user take notice and the user _should_
> take notice.

File vs. directory was just the easiest way to demonstrate.  In the presense
of symlinks I am not sure you will always get a warning.  It'll be more of a
silent file-corrupting failure kind of thing.  (Somewhat worse if yyy points
to /your/home/.ssh and zzz is "authorized_keys".)

Morten

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-10  2:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-09 18:25 "git-checkout-cache -f -a" failure Morten Welinder
2005-05-10  2:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-10  3:04   ` Morten Welinder [this message]
2005-05-10 22:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-10 23:03   ` Petr Baudis
2005-05-11  5:16     ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-11 18:31       ` Morten Welinder
2005-05-11 21:37         ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-11 22:12           ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-11 22:40             ` Test suite Petr Baudis
2005-05-12  0:01               ` [PATCH] " Junio C Hamano
2005-05-12 19:29                 ` Petr Baudis
2005-05-12 19:48                   ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-12 23:51                   ` [PATCH] Fix git-diff-files for symlinks Junio C Hamano
2005-05-13  0:14                   ` [PATCH 0/3] Core GIT fixes and additions Junio C Hamano
2005-05-12  0:02               ` [PATCH] checkout-cache fix Junio C Hamano
2005-05-12 19:38                 ` Petr Baudis
2005-05-12 19:54                   ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-11  2:53   ` "git-checkout-cache -f -a" failure Junio C Hamano

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