From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Lear Subject: Re: [gitolite] symlink hooks instead of copying them Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 00:17:22 -0600 Message-ID: <19306.26226.369115.104150@blake.zopyra.com> References: <20100204013556.GA2590@atcmail.atc.tcs.com> <20100204012840.GC497@atcmail.atc.tcs.com> <20100204014657.GA10114@lapse.rw.madduck.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git discussion list , Sitaram Chamarty , Teemu Matilainen To: martin f krafft X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 04 07:17:41 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ncv23-0003Mc-4l for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:17:39 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753409Ab0BDGRd (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Feb 2010 01:17:33 -0500 Received: from 75-27-130-60.lightspeed.austtx.sbcglobal.net ([75.27.130.60]:54131 "HELO blake.zopyra.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753186Ab0BDGRc (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Feb 2010 01:17:32 -0500 Received: (qmail 9319 invoked by uid 500); 4 Feb 2010 06:17:26 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20100204014657.GA10114@lapse.rw.madduck.net> X-Mailer: VM 8.1.0-beta under 23.1.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 14:46:57 (+1300) martin f krafft writes: >also sprach Sitaram Chamarty [2010.02.04.1428 +1300]: >> I'm ok with symlinking stuff; a couple of "cp" commands >> would change to "ln" :) Let me try it out (and make sure it >> works for upgrades also...) > >ln -sf even. Does 'ln -sf' work reliably on all distros? I seem to recall on Ubuntu 7.10 that this was broken. Bill