From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Christian Thaeter Subject: Re: handling symlinks proposal Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 20:50:01 +0100 Message-ID: <4569EFE9.6010101@pipapo.org> References: <4569C7F8.4030303@pipapo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 19:50:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061013) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GoQ14-0001Ua-7K for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 26 Nov 2006 20:50:18 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756935AbWKZTuG (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Nov 2006 14:50:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756965AbWKZTuG (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Nov 2006 14:50:06 -0500 Received: from pipapo.org ([217.140.77.75]:47120 "EHLO mail.pipapo.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756961AbWKZTuE (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Nov 2006 14:50:04 -0500 Received: from [10.20.40.100] (unknown [10.20.40.100]) by mail.pipapo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B48AD127AAD; Sun, 26 Nov 2006 20:50:02 +0100 (CET) To: Linus Torvalds Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.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.