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From: Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: richih@debian.org
Subject: git-mv with absolute path derefereces symlinks
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:48:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140115124859.GA4283@mule> (raw)

Hi,

If git-mv is provided absolute paths when moving symlinks, it tries to
dereference them and (attempts to) move the symlink target rather than the
symlink itself, this seems like a quite odd behaviour since it's inconsistent
with how git-mv works with symlinks if given relative paths, and I'm thinking
it might be a bug, since it not documented in the git-mv manpage.

###
$ git init linktest
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/arand/tmp/linktest/.git/
$ cd linktest/
$ touch target
$ ln -s target link
$ ln -s /tmp/target link2
$ git add .
$ git commit -m1
[master (root-commit) 3cfea66] 1
 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
 create mode 120000 link
 create mode 120000 link2
 create mode 100644 target
$ git mv "$(pwd)/link" "$(pwd)/moved"
$ git status
On branch master
Changes to be committed:
  (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)

        renamed:    target -> moved

$ git mv "$(pwd)/link2" "$(pwd)/moved2"
fatal: /home/arand/tmp/linktest/link2: '/home/arand/tmp/linktest/link2' is outside repository
###

--
Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com>

             reply	other threads:[~2014-01-15 12:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-15 12:48 Martin Erik Werner [this message]
2014-01-26 14:22 ` [PATCH 0/2] in-tree symlink handling with absolute paths Martin Erik Werner
2014-01-26 14:22   ` [PATCH 1/2] t0060: Add test for manipulating symlinks via " Martin Erik Werner
2014-01-26 14:22   ` [PATCH 2/2] setup: Don't dereference in-tree symlinks for " Martin Erik Werner
2014-01-26 17:19     ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-01-27  0:07       ` Martin Erik Werner
2014-01-27  0:07         ` [PATCH v2 " Martin Erik Werner
2014-01-27  0:49           ` Duy Nguyen
2014-01-27 16:31           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-01-31 20:21           ` [PATCH v3 0/4] " Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02  1:59             ` [PATCH v4 0/4] Handling of " Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02  1:59               ` [PATCH v4 1/4] t0060: Add test for manipulating symlinks via " Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02  1:59               ` [PATCH v4 2/4] t0060: Add test for prefix_path when path == work tree Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02  1:59               ` [PATCH v4 3/4] setup: Add 'abspath_part_inside_repo' function Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02  2:19                 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-02-02  2:23                   ` Duy Nguyen
2014-02-02 11:13                   ` Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 11:21                     ` David Kastrup
2014-02-02 11:37                       ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-02-02 12:09                         ` Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 12:27                           ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-02-02 12:15                     ` Duy Nguyen
2014-02-02  1:59               ` [PATCH v4 4/4] setup: Don't dereference in-tree symlinks for absolute paths Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 16:35               ` [PATCH v5 0/5] Handling of " Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 16:35                 ` [PATCH v5 1/5] t0060: Add test for manipulating symlinks via " Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-03 18:50                   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-03 19:52                     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-03 20:12                     ` Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 16:35                 ` [PATCH v5 2/5] t0060: Add test for prefix_path when path == work tree Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 16:35                 ` [PATCH v5 3/5] t0060: Add tests for prefix_path when path begins with " Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 16:35                 ` [PATCH v5 4/5] setup: Add 'abspath_part_inside_repo' function Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-03 21:00                   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-03 23:16                     ` Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-04 18:09                       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-04 18:32                         ` Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 16:35                 ` [PATCH v5 5/5] setup: Don't dereference in-tree symlinks for absolute paths Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-03  4:15                   ` Duy Nguyen
2014-02-03 13:17                     ` Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-04  0:05                       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-04 14:25                 ` [PATCH v6 0/6] Handling of " Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-04 14:25                   ` [PATCH v6 1/6] t3004: Add test for ls-files on symlinks via " Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-04 14:25                   ` [PATCH v6 2/6] t0060: Add test for prefix_path " Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-04 14:25                   ` [PATCH v6 3/6] t0060: Add test for prefix_path when path == work tree Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-04 14:25                   ` [PATCH v6 4/6] t0060: Add tests for prefix_path when path begins with " Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-04 20:00                     ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-02-04 20:07                       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-04 14:25                   ` [PATCH v6 5/6] setup: Add 'abspath_part_inside_repo' function Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-04 19:18                     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-04 14:25                   ` [PATCH v6 6/6] setup: Don't dereference in-tree symlinks for absolute paths Martin Erik Werner
2014-01-31 20:22           ` [PATCH v3 1/4] t0060: Add test for manipulating symlinks via " Martin Erik Werner
2014-01-31 20:22           ` [PATCH v3 2/4] t0060: Add test for prefix_path when path == work tree Martin Erik Werner
2014-01-31 20:22           ` [PATCH v3 3/4] setup: Add 'abspath_part_inside_repo' function Martin Erik Werner
2014-01-31 22:37             ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-02-01  1:31               ` Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-01  2:31             ` Duy Nguyen
2014-01-31 20:23           ` [PATCH v3 4/4] setup: Don't dereference in-tree symlinks for absolute paths Martin Erik Werner

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