From: Christian Thaeter <ct@pipapo.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: handling symlinks proposal
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 20:50:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4569EFE9.6010101@pipapo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611261034100.3483@woody.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, Christian Thaeter wrote:
>> Git currently keep symlinks always as symlink, I would like to see some
>> optional functionality when handling symlinks.
>
> I can pretty much guarantee that you really don't want to do this, and
> that you'd be _much_ happier using some explicit wrappers around git to
> handle your special needs, than try to teach the SCM to handle symlinks
> specially.
ok agreed, i'll write some script which one can use on a tree to
sanitize symlinks on given rules and/or be used as a pre-commit check.
That has the pretty same effect for my needs and is more sane like you
outlined.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-26 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-26 16:59 handling symlinks proposal Christian Thaeter
2006-11-26 18:25 ` René Scharfe
2006-11-26 18:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-26 19:50 ` Christian Thaeter [this message]
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